the complete and final triumph of finance capital

...was and always has been an elaborate PR operation on behalf of the looters.  As we blog, be certain that from the American Enterprise Institute to The Hudson Institute the right wing think tanks are hard at work trying to come up with new confounding rhetoric to replace what has just exploded.  They seem to have no requirement for historical memory or logical consistency.  Their only criterion is rhetorical effectiveness.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."