[lbo-talk] The American Prospect 8/30/07: "What's behind the sub-prime disaster?" by Robt. Kuttner

Andy F andy274 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 07:09:32 PDT 2007


On 8/31/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Christian Parenti had a great piece in a Baffler from around 2000 on
> just that, but I can't find my copy now. It was a time of wildcat
> strikes. They had to call in the national guard at one point to
> deliver the mail. Workers were sabotaging assembly lines. Around the
> world, OPEC was leading the charge for global redistribution. The
> U.S. had lost in Vietnam. "Inflation" was in part an economic
> phenomenon, but also a sense that the bourgeoisie was losing control.

I gave away all my Bafflers except that one, because it reads like a document that slipped through a wormhole from an alternate universe.

-- Andy



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