…the prices your insurance company pays are based on a set of values listed in a phone-book sized directory of billing codes. Those codes are…
To fully understand the Eurozone’s financial-debt crisis, we must dig through the artifice, obfuscation and propaganda to the real dynamics of Europe’s “new feudalism,” the Neocolonial-Financialization Model.
Forget “austerity”and political th…
Crony Capitalism flourishes in an economy dominated and controlled by a Central State.
Crony capitalism arises when an expansive Central State dominates the economy.The Central State can then protect crony-capitalist perquisites, cartels, quasi-mo…
Crony capitalism uses its wealth to impose government regulations designed to hinder, cripple and destroy small business competitors.
In the U.S. we now have the perfection of cloaked crony capitalism: corporate cartels use their vast concent…
Social fractals and social control myths help explain the complete corruption of America.
Correspondent Kathy K. recently elucidated a powerful concept: social fractals. We typically think of fractals–structures that are scale-invariant–as …
We can understand the systemic flaws in the U.S. “healthcare”/sickcare system by examining how doctors choose to die, which is quite different from the experience of their patients.
Explaining how the U.S. “healthcare” complex is actually a sickca…
President Obama’s signal accomplishments could easily have been signed into law by a moderate Republican.
The corporate Mainstream Media depends on ideological differences to generate “news” and advertising revenues, and the Status Quo depend…
Financialization has led to a “hothouse” global economy where the slightest disruption in central bank/Central State intervention will cause the sickly flowers to wilt and expire.
Of the three great financial truths that have been left unspoken fo…
The housing market will remain crippled until we eliminate perverse incentives to financialization and speculation, Fed/Federal intervention and all subsidies/giveaways.
If there is one goal that the financial cartels, their politico apparatchiks …
The most obvious features of recent political and financial “solutions” are their staggering complexity and their failure to fix what’s broken. The first leads to the second. Consider the healthcare “reform,” thousands of pages of mind-numbing complexi…
