• Debt and Democracy: Has the Link been Broken? 6 Dec 2011
• Pegs, Pomp, and Direct Democracy 16 Aug 2011

• EU: Democracy Incompatible with Debt Collection 3 Nov 2011
• The origin of the U.S. dollar as legal tender and its link to Depression 22 Sep 2009
• Bank Index trendline broken to the downside 7 Jun 2011

• The Fed: Time For Transparency and Accountability 12 Dec 2010
• Hussman on Bailouts of Poor Stewards of Capital 7 Jun 2010
• On How Tim Geithner and I agree on public policy 23 Aug 2010

• Federal Reserve: We are the one percent! 6 Nov 2011
• Chinese tariffs of up to 25 percent on Russian and American steel 10 Dec 2009

• Robert Johnson’s testimony expunged from Congressional records 29 Oct 2009
• Healthcare insurance industry insider: “We win” 7 Dec 2009
• Congressional response to AIG is mindless 20 Mar 2009

• Can The US. Afford Its Present Deficit Spending? 8 Mar 2011
• More thoughts on out of control deficit spending 9 Mar 2011
• Economics 101 on government budget deficits 13 May 2010

• Is Ireland the next Iceland? 18 Nov 2008
• Violence erupts in Iceland 22 Jan 2009
• Who is the next Iceland? 6 Jan 2009

• Mr. Greenspan takes it all back. His Old Time Religion was right after all. 3 Apr 2011
• Greenspan: “If they’re too big to fail, they’re too big” 16 Oct 2009
• Jim Grant on Alan Greenspan 8 Apr 2010

• Monopoly Economics in Washington 4 Jan 2010
• Google CEO Schmidt: “The laws are written by lobbyists” 3 Oct 2010
• Why is Barney Frank allowing lobbyists to gut financial reform? 7 Dec 2009

• Ten Ideas That Would Turn David Rosenberg Bullish on the USA 24 Jan 2011
• A conversation about Prop. 8 with David Boies on Charlie Rose 5 Jun 2009

• New York to use eminent domain to build a basketball stadium 25 Nov 2009
• A reminder about eminent domain and government power 10 Dec 2009
• Corporatism masquerading as Liberty 10 Feb 2011

• Rosner: Financial Stability Act “single worst not-yet passed piece of legislation” 30 Oct 2009
• Video: Geithner calls for single agency to oversee systemic risks 26 Mar 2009
• Paulson and Bernanke got it wrong on Lehman 22 Sep 2008

A corporation is a societal construct codified into legal existence to further the mutual interests of individuals. A corporation is "an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of the law," according to Chief Justice Marshall in the Dartmouth College Case of 1819. Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, won by Daniel Webster when the state of New Hampshire attempted to turn the college into The University of New Hampshire, was an early American test of eminent domain-type property seizure.

A corporation has no inalienable or natural rights. Nevertheless, it is the fact that corporations represent a group of individuals that allows the 'corporatist' to claim that these fictional legal entities should enjoy the same natural and legal liberties and rights with which individuals are born.

Let me be bold here: The 'Corporatist' is a kleptocrat masquerading as a believer in liberty. He uses terminology based in liberty to construct an ideology solely as a means of furthering the gains of a specific strata of society allied with the corporatist and at the expense of other strata, by coercion if necessary.

Marshall Auerback spoke to BNN's Squeeze Play about the civil unrest in Egypt and what the unrest means for financial markets and the global economy. The most obvious global implications regard the potential for civil unrest elsewhere and the impact of unrest on oil prices. Click on image below for the video.

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• Germany: austerity, social unrest, protectionism, gold bunkers and other links 13 Jun 2010

• Marc Faber makes bullish comments on Bloomberg 12 Mar 2009
• Chanos, Roach Discuss Outlook for China’s Economy 5 May 2010
• Gross: ‘The global economy is suffering from a lack of aggregate demand’ 1 Dec 2010

• Gross: The new normal for “the next 10 years and maybe even the next 20 years” 1 Sep 2009
• Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address 20 Jan 2009
• History shows US bank lending will be soft for years 3 Oct 2008

• Eisenhower on the Military Industrial Complex 1 Sep 2009
• Is America Following the Same Path as Japan? 3 Dec 2010
• How globalisation led to universal banking in America 13 Jul 2009

• On Basel III and Banking Regulation Generally Plus Other Links 15 Sep 2010
• More on greed, regulation, Lehman and the financial industry 15 Oct 2009
• The FSA signals a need for regulation-heavy 12 Mar 2009

• How to tackle systemic malaise 25 Sep 2008
• Janet Tavakoli on the Foreclosure Crisis and Systemic Fraud Issues 14 Nov 2010
• Video: Geithner calls for single agency to oversee systemic risks 26 Mar 2009

• Obama White House: Add Larry Summers and Robert Gibbs 22 Nov 2008
• Goldman gets ex-White House counsel 20 Apr 2010
• WaPo cancels paid White House-Congress-lobbyist hook up 3 Jul 2009

• 60 Minutes – Pigeon Fever and Ponzi Schemes on Wall Street 19 Feb 2010
• Links: 2010-03-20 – Bank Failure edition (plus repo man for the rich) 20 Mar 2010

• The Big Interview with Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt 25 Sep 2010
• Why is Barney Frank allowing lobbyists to gut financial reform? 7 Dec 2009
• Google: Why I am switching from FeedBurner to FeedBlitz 1 May 2009

• Looting by public officials in Bell California 23 Jul 2010
• Public anger at Wall Street begins to boil over 10 Feb 2009
• Goldman’s public purpose and where I have problems with the Abacus deal 29 Apr 2010

• On Apple’s Strategy To Beat Google And Other Links 10 Jul 2010
• Spain’s labour market reforms talks fail and other links 10 Jun 2010
• News round-up: 29 Aug 2008 – company reports 29 Aug 2008

• California: Obama says no to aid 16 Jun 2009
• California closed for business 9 Feb 2009
• California is to begin handing out IOUs tomorrow 30 Jun 2009

• A few thoughts about the limitations of government 23 Nov 2009
• Poll results: Why Obama has ratcheted up the populist rhetoric 25 Jan 2010
• Links: 2010-03-05 – Debtflation, the role of government, and lessons from Japan 5 Mar 2010

• The year in review at Credit Writedowns: Crisis Solutions 28 Dec 2009
• A few comments on this blog’s harsher tone about the credit crisis 8 Mar 2010
• The UK is ground zero in the credit crisis 2 May 2008

• Jon Stewart on Lenny Dykstra 15 Jul 2009

• Gasparino: No woodshed for the fat cats, just a lovefest 15 Dec 2009
• Video: Geithner calls for single agency to oversee systemic risks 26 Mar 2009
• Robert Johnson’s testimony expunged from Congressional records 29 Oct 2009

• James Galbraith: How financial stability creates instability 1 Dec 2009
• Too big has failed 9 Mar 2009
• Why Lehman failed 17 Sep 2008