…thirty attacking labor—you should expect capital growth. But that doesn’t mean that capital growth is welfare-enhancing, or even necessarily has a positive ROI. At Bear Stearns’s main building, 383 Madison,…

Note:This was going to be short pieces about things I missed during a week of illness. It turned into a Very Long Piece riffing on two posts from Capital Gains…

…financial industry provides rewards to employees and shareholders that are well in excess of the human value it produces (even considering its role as an intermediary delivering financial capital to…

…gain that wealth by accumulating capital and taking gains on it in the form of actual capital gains as defined and interest and dividends. None of which are taxable under…

…question of the US. v China but government that are in dependent partnerships with ‘no-longer-national’ capital — which ultimately boils down to labor v capital, and this capital must control…

…is not so good as the previous “International Capitalism.” Since he noted that “International Capitalism”; is synonymous with “the Washington Consensus,” this leaves him having damned China with very faint…

…come (if it comes) through regulation as the new systemic risk council oversees bank issues and decides whether activities of banks pose sufficient risk to be regulated or eliminated. Capital…

…of choice that imposed significant budgetary demands. The wealthy have fought for laws that favor them–deregulation, zero capital gains taxation, lower corporate taxes, the ability to offshore businesses and assets…

…extend the expensing of capital investments yet again. This is not just puny, but also “been there, done that” and no magnificant new job creation was forthcoming. Businesses only need…

…paying their fair share just because they have lots of capital), (ii) missed the point entirely of my fellow Angry Bear Tom Bozzo’s post , which suggested it worth noting…