Articles by Rob Urie
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Capitalism, Engineered Dependencies and the Eurozone
Rob Urie - CounterPunch,
27 Jul 2015
Syriza in Greece can be as ‘socialist’ as it wishes to be as long as the broad reorganization of society that the term implies ends at the foot of an armchair. The Troika, piling on to historical IMF structural adjustment policies, is fine with economic democracy as long as markets are open, public resources and processes are for sale to politically approved bidders, a capitalist banking system has free-rein over the creation and allocation of financial capital, labor is unorganized, desperate and pliable and public policies are dictated by external creditors.
→ read full articleThe Self-Enrichment of the Elites: Economic Hegemony and the Federal Reserve
Rob Urie - CounterPunch,
2 Mar 2015
The Federal Reserve has always based its policies on ‘managing’ Western economies to protect the value of bank assets from inflation. Economic life is arranged around Wall Street’s interests. This can be seen across the global periphery framed by class interests under the guise of social neutrality. Western economists are professional apologists of these class interests.
→ read full articleMarx and Lenin as the New Go-To Economists: In the Time between Crises
Rob Urie - CounterPunch,
20 May 2013
Rob Urie writes that the ruling class wants austerity to transfer wealth from the government to their own greedy wallets.
→ read full articleLeaving Smoldering Carcasses, Where Functioning Economies Once Existed: Wall Street’s Role in the Crisis in Cyprus
Rob Urie - CounterPunch,
1 Apr 2013
Finance capitalism is fatally flawed in theory and in practice. Its ultimate product is that which is before us: a global plutocracy dependent on state capture, power and control to plunder and loot what will become, by necessity, increasingly resistant populations.
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