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That’s a yes then.

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What is that movie? Boiler Room? That’s what it’s like. I mean, it’s the coolest thing ever. Cubicle, cubicle, cubicle for 150,000 sq.
ft. The ceilings were probably 25 or 30 feet high. The elevator had a big graffiti painting. Big open space. And it was awesome. We lived mortgage. That’s all we did. This deal, […]

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We’ve run with this before, but given the USA’s embrace of socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor, I thought I’d post it up again. From the always wonderful Tom Tomorrow.

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Michael Taft published a brilliant essay exclusively for Indymedia this weekend, and it’s really worth reading – twice.
It covers much of what Michael has been saying in his recession diaries and on his blog. But it brings it all together in a marvelous synthesis, taking in the current panicked reaction of Fianna Fail – […]

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Donagh’s reference to Mark Steel below got me thinking about Steel’s BBC radio lecture series, in particular his talk on Karl Marx. It’s such an entertaining piece that I’ve put it up on the site (see below). It’s about 25 minutes long, and while it borrows heavily from Francis Wheen’s biography of Marx, the lecture […]

 

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Well, it’s taken a while, but the message finally got through. There’s a serious problem with the Irish economy, and the government has come up with a stirring plan to set thing right and get the ‘aul party going again.
We all know how serious “sentiment” (cough) is to the whole shebang, so we need […]

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It was Donagh who first told me about this. For the last few weeks David Harvey has been putting up on the web his lectures on Marx’s Capital. The idea is to read the book in tandem with the lectures themselves. I’ve tried to read Capital before, but always gave up. This time I’m […]

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Oh Brilliant. First the economy goes into something that is not, but is almost like ‘meltdown’ and then Google are forced to hand over the IP addresses of all those people who link and embed YouTube videos to Viacom, so they can prove that they’re getting ripped off.
Here, following on from Conor’s post and […]

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Capitalism has had an incredible run — politically and culturally as well as economically — since the stagflation crisis of the 1970s. The resolution of that crisis required, as economists put it at the time, “reducing expectations” of the kind nurtured by the trade union militancy and welfare state gains of the 1960s. […]

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