Comments on: Questionable Trading Practices May Have Led to Bear Stearns’ Collapse http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/questionable-trading-practices-may-have-led-to-bear-stearns%e2%80%99-collapse/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:12:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: anthony innes http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/questionable-trading-practices-may-have-led-to-bear-stearns%e2%80%99-collapse/#comment-16853 anthony innes Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:11:58 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/questionable-trading-practices-may-have-led-to-bear-stearns%e2%80%99-collapse/#comment-16853 mulga mullbrain tells it like it is. mulga mullbrain tells it like it is.

]]> By: Mulga Mumblebrain http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/questionable-trading-practices-may-have-led-to-bear-stearns%e2%80%99-collapse/#comment-16733 Mulga Mumblebrain Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:21:03 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/questionable-trading-practices-may-have-led-to-bear-stearns%e2%80%99-collapse/#comment-16733 So, parasites operate without scruple, eh? Hardly a ground-shaking revelation. Greed and fear and panic, and subterranean subterfuge have dominated 'markets' since the Tulip Mania and the South Sea Bubble, and well before. The parasite class is self-selecting. Ordinary people have consciences, and will recoil from theft and chicanery. Not 'The Masters of the Universe', in their revealingly psychotic, need one mention childishly deluded, self-description. This financial parasite class is the scum on the surface of a vast cess pool that is Market Capitalism. Beneath this 'upper crust' billions toil to produce the wealth the leeches confiscate. Most of the toilers live in abject want, despite their labours, and their plight worsens as the blood-suckers' demands grow the greater. And all the while the fermenting, boiling ocean of shit that is Market Capitalism, is eating away the very life-supports that have made this planet the one outpost of intelligent life we know of in the Universe. How the supposed apotheosis of this intelligence, Homo sapiens, has allowed a tiny group of vampires to bring it all to ruin and collapse, will puzzle scientists and philosophers for aeons. What a pity they almost certainly won't be our descendants. So, parasites operate without scruple, eh? Hardly a ground-shaking revelation. Greed and fear and panic, and subterranean subterfuge have dominated ‘markets’ since the Tulip Mania and the South Sea Bubble, and well before. The parasite class is self-selecting. Ordinary people have consciences, and will recoil from theft and chicanery. Not ‘The Masters of the Universe’, in their revealingly psychotic, need one mention childishly deluded, self-description. This financial parasite class is the scum on the surface of a vast cess pool that is Market Capitalism. Beneath this ‘upper crust’ billions toil to produce the wealth the leeches confiscate. Most of the toilers live in abject want, despite their labours, and their plight worsens as the blood-suckers’ demands grow the greater. And all the while the fermenting, boiling ocean of shit that is Market Capitalism, is eating away the very life-supports that have made this planet the one outpost of intelligent life we know of in the Universe. How the supposed apotheosis of this intelligence, Homo sapiens, has allowed a tiny group of vampires to bring it all to ruin and collapse, will puzzle scientists and philosophers for aeons. What a pity they almost certainly won’t be our descendants.

]]> By: rgaylor@pvtnetworks.net http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/questionable-trading-practices-may-have-led-to-bear-stearns%e2%80%99-collapse/#comment-16564 rgaylor@pvtnetworks.net Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:42:13 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/questionable-trading-practices-may-have-led-to-bear-stearns%e2%80%99-collapse/#comment-16564 Remember? The Soviet economy? It was driven from Moscow and went down the toilet. Now, led by those who spout libertarian principles but behave in the manner of the old Soviet Apparatchiks with a centrally controlled economy, we are rapidly sending our economy down the same toilet! Why? Because those who control the strings, the corporations, want to be protected by government ... The solution? My guess is Balkanize the US and hope like hell that we live in a place modeled on the Articles of Confederation and NOT on the current Corporo-Capitalist Command Economy state (i.e., what a certain Italian defined as Fascism). Remember?
The Soviet economy? It was driven from Moscow and went down the toilet.
Now, led by those who spout libertarian principles but behave in the manner of the old Soviet Apparatchiks with a centrally controlled economy, we are rapidly sending our economy down the same toilet!
Why? Because those who control the strings, the corporations, want to be protected by government …

The solution? My guess is Balkanize the US and hope like hell that we live in a place modeled on the Articles of Confederation and NOT on the current Corporo-Capitalist Command Economy state (i.e., what a certain Italian defined as Fascism).

]]> By: Don Hawkins http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/questionable-trading-practices-may-have-led-to-bear-stearns%e2%80%99-collapse/#comment-16529 Don Hawkins Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:37:35 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/03/questionable-trading-practices-may-have-led-to-bear-stearns%e2%80%99-collapse/#comment-16529 Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

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