Friday 16 March 2012

attack of the anti-capitalist bankers

It's nice and Orwellian when bankers and the media call
the Occupy movement 'anti-capitalist', as if it's like:

you complain about anything in capitalism,
therefore you is communist and anarchist.

As if capitalism is an 'on-off' switch.

The working people are getting strict capitalism while
the rich are getting coddled by socialist governments.

IshitUnot:
Jim Grant Must Watch: "Capitalism Is An Alternative For What We Have Now"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 03/07/2012 17:39 -0500
Jim Grant is simply brilliant in this must watch interview with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, which we won't spoil with commentary, suffice to provide the following pearl of an exchange:
Maria Bartiromo: "What are the alternatives?"
Jim Grant: "Capitalism is an alternative for what we have now. I highly recommend it."
Maria: "We all do."
Grant: "No we don't."
Maria: "The Federal Reserve may not."
Grant: "We ought to be discussing an intelligent move to a sound currency by which i mean a currency that is based on a standard and not at the whim and the discretion of a bunch of mandarins sitting around Washington D.C."
In other news, Joseph Stalin has never been happier in his grave that Ben Bernanke has decided to shoulder the legacy of central planning and is firmly committed to proving that where Vissarionovich failed, the ChairSatan will succeed. At any

let's cut to the video: