Defending their banker constituency

[orv]

One of the recurring themes in Paul Krugman's writings has been that the economic thinking currently fashionable with conservative politicians seems completely insensitive to high unemployment, or the fact that we're in an economic slump - they're entirely fixated on a fear of inflation, even though inflation is nearly nonexistent right now. Today

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[sauces]

thanks for posting this, I hadn't heard this observation made anywhere, and it's such a natural conclusion to draw from the ideology, it's kind of weird it hasn't been discussed.

[orb2069]

...And thanks to the Citizens United ruling, pandering to the wealthy few is now more likely to get you elected than ever before...