Erstellt am: 31. 3. 2009 - 11:13 Uhr
Today's webtip: The Quiet Coup
As the bulk of the planet stands around watching their economies do Very Strange Things, some of them are coming to some Very Strange Conclusions.
Now, don't get me wrong. The idea that the U.S. is an oligarchy and that this might be the reason everything has happened, is not, in and of itself, a Very Strange Conclusion. Or rather, it wouldn't be if it were made by a run of the mill anti-globalist in some obsure online publication.
However, seeing that conclusion being made by the former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund in an article in The Atlantic...
Well, let's just say it makes me understand just how Alice might have felt.
Maybe I wasn't such a stupid 18 year old after all.