Unbearable Cost: Bush, Greenspan and the Economics of Empire

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Corporate Democracy; Civic Disrespect....Pages 7-9
Lies, Dumb Lies, and Sample Statistics....Pages 10-11
Defending Democrats … and Democracy....Pages 12-14
Tracking Down the Corporate Crooks....Pages 15-17
The Realities of Resistance....Pages 18-20
Why Bush Likes a Bad Economy....Pages 21-25
The No-Jobs President....Pages 26-31
Bush’s Hail Mary....Pages 32-35
The Plutocrats Go Wild....Pages 36-38
Dissecting Cheney....Pages 39-42
Waiting to Vote....Pages 43-44
Abolish Election Day....Pages 45-50
Democracy Inaction....Pages 51-53
The Floodgates Have Opened....Pages 54-56
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
National Defense....Pages 59-61
The Future Oil War....Pages 62-64
The Cheney Doctrine....Pages 65-71
The Unbearable Costs of Empire....Pages 72-75
The Paramilitary Mind....Pages 76-78
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
What Economic Price This War?....Pages 79-80
Still Wrong: Why Liberals Should Keep Opposing the War....Pages 81-83
Don’t Blame Rumsfeld, Blame Bush....Pages 84-86
The Iraqi Quagmire....Pages 87-89
War and Economy Don’t Wear Well....Pages 90-92
How You Will Pay for the War....Pages 93-95
The Economics of the Oil War....Pages 96-98
Boom Times for War Inc.....Pages 99-101
The Gambler’s Fallacy....Pages 102-105
Withdrawal Symptoms....Pages 106-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Back to the Cross of Gold....Pages 113-115
Greenspan’s Error....Pages 116-117
The Free Ride of Mr Greenspan....Pages 118-120
There’s Some Good News That’s Bad News....Pages 121-123
Greenspan’s Whim....Pages 124-125
Greenspan’s Glasnost....Pages 126-128
The Butterfly Effect....Pages 129-132
The Credit, Where Credit is Due....Pages 133-134
Stop the Sabotage Coming from the Fed....Pages 135-136
The Charge of the Fed Brigade....Pages 137-138
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
We Cannot Have Discipline So We Must Have Pain....Pages 139-140
The Swiss Guard....Pages 141-143
Watching Greenspan Grow....Pages 144-148
The Man Who Stayed Too Long....Pages 149-151
Bernankenstein’s Monster....Pages 152-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
I Don’t Want To Talk About It....Pages 159-161
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices....Pages 162-164
Is the New Economy Rewriting the Rules?....Pages 165-167
So Long, Wealth Effect....Pages 168-170
Incurable Optimists....Pages 171-173
Enron and the Next Revolution....Pages 174-176
Share Revenue, Save Jobs....Pages 177-179
Hangover in America?....Pages 180-183
The Big Fix: the Case for Public Spending....Pages 184-186
Bush’s Tax Package and Economic Reality....Pages 187-189
Cashing Out....Pages 190-192
Bankers Versus Base....Pages 193-198
Keeping It Real for the Voters....Pages 199-202
Dazzle Them with Demographics....Pages 203-207
Social Security Scare Campaign....Pages 208-211
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Apocalypse Not Yet....Pages 212-218
Taming Predatory Capitalism....Pages 219-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-227