I've been reading the book, "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein. It's primarily about the Friedman economic theory of Monetarism and the Unregulated Free Market system he proposed, and the methodology that was used to "install" the system on an unwilling population. According to the book, there is/was all kinds of skulduggery and evil thieving ( Read more... )

I've been noticing that the headlines lately have been talking a lot about "inflation" and how it's threatening the global economy. And then the writer uses the price of wheat to illustrate that, gee, the price is really shooting up there because of the droughts in China and Brazil and Russia, etc. so with the price of food shooting up like that, ( Read more... )