tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post737895320258516635..comments2023-03-24T21:49:49.118-04:00Comments on Dubious Prospects: So why was the TPP so important to Obama?Graydonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-37243981253839724672016-12-07T05:00:53.716-05:002016-12-07T05:00:53.716-05:00+heron61
That's certainly the historical reas...+heron61<br /><br />That's certainly the historical reason the GOP supported some approximation of free trade, yeah.<br /><br />However, the billionaire-backed candidates all got beat by Trump in the primary. Trump is not beholden to any of the right-wing billionaires and (because Trump works on patterns of submission like woah) hates and fears their attempts at control. Pence is not Graydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-24068597943137922602016-12-07T04:06:36.115-05:002016-12-07T04:06:36.115-05:00That's a good description of a good bit of the...That's a good description of a good bit of the Republican Party, but it ignores one crucial section - the money. The billionaires behind the GOP - the Koch Brothers and the rest are as far as I can tell, astoundingly greedy individuals who want power, all the money they can get and a state based on brutal social darwinism. They also make large amounts of their money in international trade Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-46555266986320116652016-12-06T20:22:28.327-05:002016-12-06T20:22:28.327-05:00+heron61
I don't think Trump will leave offic...+heron61<br /><br />I don't think Trump will leave office early. (Not alive, anyway. He's not especially healthy for his age.)<br /><br />The GOP no longer exists. It's a lot easier to model this as a takeover by the Confederacy; an authoritarian slave-holding police state with no women's rights run by an unofficial aristocracy in it for their own material fortunes. Not good atGraydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-68327232813677688072016-12-06T20:13:48.139-05:002016-12-06T20:13:48.139-05:00+Max Osman
I have not!
Though I have read Jane J...+Max Osman<br /><br />I have not!<br /><br />Though I have read Jane Jacobs' <i>Cities and the Wealth of Nations</i> which allows one to reach the same conclusions by an alternate route.Graydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-70931333576272728672016-12-06T07:25:49.007-05:002016-12-06T07:25:49.007-05:00Have you read the global minotaur by Yanis Varoufa...Have you read the global minotaur by Yanis Varoufakis?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128431865121552703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-50305169712101207662016-12-06T04:32:55.715-05:002016-12-06T04:32:55.715-05:00Thanks, that's the first reason that actually ...Thanks, that's the first reason that actually makes sense. The TPP has some excellent features for limiting (somewhat at least) environmental and human rights abuses in the developing world, which would both definitely be nice, but is otherwise drastically terrible for anyone except massively wealthy IP holders, and so it never made sense why Obama was so fervently for it.<br /><br />As for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-46757124973003014442016-12-05T08:11:57.878-05:002016-12-05T08:11:57.878-05:00+Max Osman
Gas stations typically have about thre...+Max Osman<br /><br />Gas stations typically have about three days' supply. They order more on a credit system.<br /><br />2008 was what happened when the investment articulation of the banking system goes down; lots of people lose savings, there's a big blip in construction so people lose their jobs, and so on. It's not what happens when people and businesses lose access to credit.Graydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-77586366347998283882016-12-05T05:28:52.569-05:002016-12-05T05:28:52.569-05:00>I was more thinking "gasoline goes out of...>I was more thinking "gasoline goes out of supply"<br /><br />So no gas to be had anywhere?<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128431865121552703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-88597695896856090192016-12-04T17:54:51.125-05:002016-12-04T17:54:51.125-05:00+Max Osman
I was more thinking "gasoline goe...+Max Osman<br /><br />I was more thinking "gasoline goes out of supply"; unemployment implies a functioning economy with some kind of pricing problem. A value collapse like that wouldn't leave anything-much functioning. <br /><br />There'd be lots of plant, and it'd be materially fine, but the ability to do the price-based stuff like orders and paying your accounts would Graydonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09839374676813519438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105242361638428746.post-20054148439411823912016-12-04T12:46:16.876-05:002016-12-04T12:46:16.876-05:00>The greenback ceasing to be the reserve curren...>The greenback ceasing to be the reserve currency with no replacement available isn't good. Two fifths of the value in the US economy going away in a short period of time -- rents the empire is no longer able to exact -- doesn't have an adjective. Even one-fifth, because the current long supply chain situation doesn't have a graceful way to shorten the supply chains or collapse Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14128431865121552703noreply@blogger.com