Archive for January, 2009

The awesomeness of Orlov

January 12, 2009

As a practical matter, failing at capitalism does not automatically make you socialist, no more than failing at marriage automatically make you gay.

Just awesome.

Hard to beat the Russians for cynical, sardonic, pessimistic, insightful, wry, irreverent, prolix analysis.

The fall of capitalism

January 8, 2009

the fall of Wall Street is to market fundamentalism what the fall of the Berlin Wall was to communism.

Exactly. The whole corrupt house of cards has collapsed.

The good news is: we get to invent something more humane, more sustainable, more “human-scale”, to replace it.