. . .
J “Bummer. After all that time and thought.”
K “And all that fun. I tell you I realized that if it was going to be done and if it was going to be done right, I would have to do it to get it done right.”
J “Been there. Done that.”
. . .
K “A construct such as the IS-LM model is largely malarkey but is heuristically valuable. Today, the fundamental problem trying to describe and direct the operation and function of the economy is that there really is not an operating and functioning economy. With all of the distortion, intervention and manipulation, price is not tied to anything real. Every business, every single business in every single industry, is a monopoly. The business is the industry; the industry is the business. From pork to politics.”
J “Yet only a few folks have discovered and understand that we cannot discover price. Price discovery now is so passé. Without price, we cannot communicate in the economic marketplace. And the central bankers working alone and together destroyed the language of the marketplace.”
. . .
K “He left Iowa with his father marketing the hogs to five potential buyers and returned to find that one buyer sets the price.”
J “And both Senators from Iowa are Republicans. You don’t have to ‘go figure’ when ‘it figures’ so clearly.”
. . .
J “And the Swedish central bankers reward those individuals who provide the economic cover for the crimes and misdemeanors of all the central bankers by giving their ignoble ‘Nobel’ Prize in E-con-omics to the most successful errand boy or girl.”
K “The Noble Prize in Eco-nomics is the part of the answer.”
. . .
J “The most vexing monopoly is the government/corporate syndicate that precludes any competing alternative entity.”
K “The twisted irony is that most industries, and all the major tech industries without exception, are basically ‘natural monopolies’ and thus ‘utilities’ such as the water company. A utility is a monopoly. A monopoly must be regulated. Yet the tech companies/tech utilities own the government and quash any regulation.”
. . .
J “The Republican political monopoly firmly supports the current economic monopolies who in turn own the Republican political monopoly. The Death Spiral is spiraling but not changing.”
K “In a fortnight, the slow boiling coup d’état by the Republicans could be completed by the Republicans. If the Democrats do not take the House, the control of government will be concentrated in one mega-corporation – the Republican Party, Inc. / the Corporation, Inc. The political ‘campaign’ is aptly namely for battle because the Democrats are charging east up Jenkins Hill trying to retake the southern flank of the Capitol and the House of Commons under intense enemy fire. We need to hire the friends and fire the enemy.”
J “The Presidency is a lock, the Judiciary is the stock and the Congress is the barrel. Lock, stock and barrel.”
K “For the next two years at least, the Presidency is indeed a lock for the Republicans. For the rest of our time on this Planet, the judiciary is a laughing stock and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Republican Party, Inc. / the Corporation, Inc. doing their bidding. And the Republican Congress has the ordinary citizen over a barrel.”
J “Hook, line and sinker. We are hooked, they have us firmly on the line and all of us are sunk.”
. . .
[See the discussion in “This is Not a Market” in “The Automatic Earth” by Raul Ilargi Meijer dated April 23, 2018.]
[See the scary e-commentary last Halloween at “Are ‘Prices’ Language? Are Antitrust Laws Grounded In The First Amendment? How Do We Forestall The ‘Frightful Five’ And Other Monopolies. Oh, And Happy Halloween! (October 30, 2017)”.]
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