tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post2935035663326112489..comments2024-02-15T07:19:24.972-05:00Comments on The Daily Doubter: Today's discount book purchaseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-57695360042832913682009-08-15T14:43:41.544-04:002009-08-15T14:43:41.544-04:00Kat:
I've been recommending Phillips' Arr...Kat:<br /><br />I've been recommending Phillips' Arrogant Capitol (1994) and Boiling Points (1992) to people, myself. <br /><br />If more people were familiar with these works or the ideas in them, the mythology of The Market peddled by supply-side plutocrats would stand less a chance of creating Bizarro revolutionaries like the Tea Party protesters who are ready to take to the streets and demand more power to the British crown and the East India company.Hume's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551684109760430351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-77964637296577669542009-08-15T14:36:34.509-04:002009-08-15T14:36:34.509-04:00"And Clinton's policies didn't do squ..."And Clinton's policies didn't do squat to reverse the trend, and in fact accelerated the process. Don't go soft on Democrats."<br /><br /><a href="http://dailydoubt.blogspot.com/2006/03/government-of-people-for-people-by.html" rel="nofollow">I know</a>. That's why I said it continued through today.Hume's Ghosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551684109760430351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-14768252633456702642009-08-14T23:46:03.505-04:002009-08-14T23:46:03.505-04:00I've been recommending this book to people for...I've been recommending this book to people for <i>years</i>. What I found fascinating was his economic history of US depressions, and their causes.<br /><br />I always warn that, while Phillips' style of writing can be deathly dull, the content makes this book a real page-turner.<br /><br />As for the previous comment on Bill Clinton and other Dems, it's obvious we have the best one-party system corporate and personal wealth can buy -- which is precisely what Phillips laments in <i>The Politics of Rich and Poor</i>.<br /><br />Hope you find it as enlightening as I did.<br /><br />Kat<br />Newshoggers.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11224468.post-61033759361679393732009-08-14T23:28:30.926-04:002009-08-14T23:28:30.926-04:00"The book was published in '91 and helped..."The book was published in '91 and helped Bill Clinton win the '92 presidential election. ....And wealth has continued to concentrate up until today, where levels of income inequality"<br /><br />And Clinton's policies didn't do squat to reverse the trend, and in fact accelerated the process. Don't go soft on Democrats.Left-wing Wackohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17947541187459710479noreply@blogger.com