Cassidy in New Yorker

Louis Proyect lnp3 at panix.com
Sat Aug 15 06:03:12 PDT 1998


Peter Kilander:
>I'm not absolutely confident; I was just relaying what my crystal ball was
>saying. I wouldn't bet money one way or the other. In the article I was
>talking about, the writer said that in the aftermath of the crash of 1987,
>the Fed flooded the markets with money, thereby avoiding depression.

One of the things that I find so extremely interesting about how this situation is being discussed in the bourgeois press is that "globalization" has disappeared as a descriptive term. All the pundits are trying to make the case that the crises are localized. What was only a few years ago the buzz-word on everybody's lips has now become extinct. My guess is that since bourgeois economics is basically "false science" or ideology, it becomes necessary to adjust one's rationalizations to meet current situations.

Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list