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“The Bank is trying to kill me, but I will kill it.”
– Andrew Jackson

Advancing Oligarchy:
a conversation with James Kwak

Wall Street's argument that it has this mysterious power, that you have to trust it that it's using it for good, and that if you take it away the world will end, is a hugely successful debating point. Congressmen are afraid of it. They're afraid that they don't understand what's going on, and they're hearing these lobbyists say that if you push too hard on the banking industry, the world will end.

 

 



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From The Straddler Archives
fall2009
fall2009
Blending Me Softly
"Ultimately, commercial strategy precludes the possibility that true beauty can exist at all."		 fall2008
fall2008
Introduction to the Body
"I imagine the practioners of bodies of texts as editors, their fingers hard at work, cutting and suturing, doing harm and good."		 springsummer2010
springsummer2010
The Predator's Boneyeard:
a conversation with
James Kenneth Galbraith
"As things stand, the crucial act of denial in the banking sector, in my view, is that it has not come to grips with the extend of fraud, abuse, and failures of documentation that underlay the crisis in the first place."		 fall2008
fall2008
Translations of classical
Chinese poetry
"A fellow I met near home
answered all my question
by pointing to tombs
under the pines."