Two Party Opera by Brian Carroll for March 17, 2023

The primary occupation of the human species is [ugh] — commerce. Global interdependence weirdly combined with global competition makes for a very, very complicated world.

All countries subsidize their commerce – regardless of which ism their government professes to. That don’t make it right.

The U.S. government could take the extreme moral stand, and declare that we will no longer guarantee American businesses against catastrophic failure, whilst every other government backs theirs, likely causing a global depression. We’re in the moral quandary business, too.

Well done Mr. Carrol. Hard Truth. This is a bailout to rich cronies. No matter how you dress it up.

He’s wearing a turbine. Is he Muslim?

The problem is the periodic lobotomy people give themselves so they forget, in this instance, what caused 2008, what caused the S&L crisis, why Penn Square failed.

Nice allusion to Thomas Nast, with the anthropomorphic moneybag.

Capitalist are gonna be grift, don’t hate the player, hate the game.

I am trying to remember back to 2008. There was a memo written by bankers circulated that basically said – they have to bail us out or they will have millions of people out of work. It was compared to a bank hold up note.

For the so-called ‘conservatives, this is just one more ’issue’ to weaponize and LIE about.

They claim bank failures are caused by “wokeness”.

The only sustainable capitalism is tightly-regulated capitalism.

No, the chumps are the ones who keep the gov-types in office.