Blyth opens the Dore to Eurodeath

This will soon be an analysis of a visit by
Prof Mark Blyth, guru of Western disintegration,
to the Jimmy Dore show.

I think Blyth is the man I follow for ideas on
the EU and the populist revolution.
He's a good narrator, if you can handle the
Glasgow Weegie accent. I have a schooling
in Weegie from an early age.

Jimmy Dore is a progressive US comic
who is podcasting and so on. Both
acidic funny and no-bullshit approach is
awesome.
This is habit-forming.
These are fairly recent i.e. this month

It is a very interesting four part show.
I don't know what order they're in, cuz
they don't say. Still, it's good, approachable
stuff.

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1:00- Larry Summers has paid no price for his
malfeasance. Elite live in a bubble.
2:00 boomers are selfish
2:30 Greece will stay in Eurozone until it ends.
I believe that too. Look at how the EU muddles
from disaster to disaster, and yet keeps going,
cuz they got all the money and power and media.
3:15 how Greek gov used Euro to continue
robbing their own nation
3:45 Blyth's thesis that when Greece started
collapsing, the dominoes were ready and the
German/French/Belgian banks were ready to fall,
and that's the birth of the troika. They could not
allow a domino of bank runs to start off.
4:30 the troika idiots were not sure what to do,
but could not risk collapse. This is sort of excusing
those jerks.
4:50 Trichet at ECB was trying to control
inflation, like a wanker. Institutional blinders. the ECB
could have bought the Greek debt. Solved

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-the Adam Smith argument that democracy is
asset insurance for rich people. The rich
have not been paying their share.
1:30 the Euro-birth mistake
3:30 Bernank had "solved the business cycle"
in 2003
5:00 Bankers are incestuous
6:00 systemic risk. Dodd Frank (not good enough)
is now being taken apart by Trump. New crisis
coming. Wall Street knows already, but that's
fuckin hubris and self- anahilation.
7:45 most people, even greenies are in denial
about what effect our wasteful life is doing to
the planet [while most of California is sinking
into a hole]
9:30 governments will not go green. The
agreements are bullshit (I agree). It's up to
us as consumers, for lack of a better word
10:00 German and Chinese green tech are
the future (very believable). To me, at this
key juncture in history, the Anglo-American
world, and its victims (most of EU) will fall
behind because we enjoy being screwed by
bankers. and Trump doesn't believe in
global warming
11:15 Green new deal (Greece's GPAP had
this idea) is THE solution
11:30 how US media (comcast MSNBC) pay
"liberal" talking head journalists $30 000 a
day to ignore reality and particularly their
own corruption.

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more soon