1. Peak Capitalism
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... Union and NAFTA. Hedge funds, derivatives and Goldman Sachs. The internet. The Excel spreadsheet. Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, and Afghanistan again. Iraq. The Golden Era, The Age of Triumph 1968 ...

2. The Owe-String
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

The Owe-String Everybody owes money to nobody in particular. A few people in the world owe no money to anybody, but because everyone around them and every institution they depend on owes money, these ...

3. Twenty Things July 7, 2010
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  Twenty Things July 7, 2010     Janelle Monáe Tightrope ft. Big Boi     Growing numbers of folks feel that the best way to keep the internet vibrant and free is to rid ...

4. The Brief, Great, Vanished Social Welfare
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... they shed as a matter of course. BP hedges its risk every day and is compensated mightily for it. Everyone else...not so much. The reason for this is simple - since the inception of western capitalism, ...

5. Twenty Things March 28, 2010
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Twenty Things March 28, 2010   Ida Maria - Oh My God Rock & Roll and Primal Therapy? Love this song.       Growing numbers of folks feel that the best way to keep the ...

6. The Unsightly Back of the Invisible Hand
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

The Unsightly Back of the Invisible Hand The second of a four-part essay that questions the inevitability of the social costs of unfettered capitalism. By travelling back in time ...

7. Are There No Prisons - Are There No Workhouses
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

Are There No Prisons - Are There No Workhouses The first of a four-part essay that questions the inevitability of the social costs of unfettered capitalism. By travelling back in ...

8. Banks: Corporate Bundles of Dismal Joy - and Mislaid Rage
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

Banks: Corporate Bundles of Dismal Joy - and Mislaid Rage Banks are not monolithic structures. They are not simply, "the banks". Some banks lend to people, some banks lend to business. Some ...

9. Food is Too Cheap
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

... finance wizards from the urban bowels of Wall Street. Banks, hedge funds, and trusts receive billions of dollars worldwide from the accounts of thousands of scattered investors - most unwittingly - through ...

10. What's Wrong With Economics?
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

... loud. Computing power increased through the 1970's, prices began to drop, and computers began showing up on desks on every floor. Stock markets became wired to banking houses and finance firms. The Hedge ...

11. Why is Lloyd Blankfein
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

Why is Lloyd Blankfein Lloyd Blankfein is the name of the human who is the Chief Executive Officer (the big man) of the global finance corporation called Goldman Sachs. Goldman ...

12. There Is No Recession in Heaven
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

There is no Recession in Heaven   World stock markets are rising. Money is moving. Great chunks of zeros on flat screen monitors are shifting at the speed of light around the world, ...

13. Romancing the Afghan Dragon
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

Romancing The Afghan Dragon   Capitalism is based on the free exchange of goods between people, where each has a unique value he attaches to the good being traded. Where the trade ...

14. Impossibleism
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

Impossibleism   Uninterrupted, sustainable economic growth is impossible. Those who support it are "Impossibleists". They practice, preach, and defend to the death at times, "Impossibleism". It is ...

15. The Humble Tuna
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

... of Canada, with steel mills and toxic waste pouring into the lake, pleasantly hidden beyond "hissing summer lawns" and well cared for hedges. My memories of tuna are quite different. Ours came from a tin ...

16. Wealth Swapping
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

... in an effort to keep the good times rolling. Rio Tinto was a beneficiary of this trend, building and consolidating through access to massive global wealth provided by American hedge funds, leveraging its ...

17. Lorax Economics
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

Lorax Economics   "It all started back. Such a long, long time back. Way back in the days when the grass was still green, and the pond was still wet, and the clouds were still clean, and the song ...

18. Freud's Bastards
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

Freud's Bastards While there is no doubt that democracy and capitalism have been the twin pillars of our exponential progress over the last one hundred years, little is known about the ...

19. Stress Test: US Banking, Obama, and the IMF Collision
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

US stress tests on banks and the IMF are on a collision course. American politics vs. cold hard fact, with the day of reckoning due at the end of April. On April 21, the International Monetary Fund ...

20. Stock Markets are Not Democratic
(Aetius Romulous/Articles by Aetius Romulous)

Stock Markets are Not Democratic   The stock market is not democratic. Changes in the stock market, far from being an honest representation of the state of the nation's economy, are nothing more ...