{"id":417,"date":"2008-09-29T15:16:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T22:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=417"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:23:39","slug":"now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/now-what\/","title":{"rendered":"Now What"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" id=\"political_capital\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"political_capital.swf\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><embed src=\"political_capital.swf\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" name=\"political_capital\" align=\"middle\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Open thread . . . <\/p>\n<p>Thoreau over at Unqualified Offerings <a href=\"http:\/\/highclearing.com\/index.php\/archives\/2008\/09\/29\/8759\">muses that Glenn Greenwald (to use Jon Stewart voice) . . . &#8220;Nailed It !&#8221;<\/a>  Yorkshire Ranter sets forth a <a href=\"http:\/\/yorkshire-ranter.blogspot.com\/\">pithy analysis of the British nationalization of Bradford &#038; Bingley<\/a> &#8212; and why U.S. analogies do not hold. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.positiveliberty.com\/2008\/09\/im-kind-of-relieved-sort-of.html\">All in all, we come out where Jim Hanley does at Positive Liberty<\/a>.   As he says, we&#8217;re kind of glad this happened &#8212; for all the reasons he lays out.  (And thanks also to the folks there for the kind words about Speed Racer &#8211; isms).   We also share the skepticism voiced in the comments about House Republicans.  They indeed are incapable of anything but short term tactical political ploys, saying &#8216;no&#8217; or regurgitating Rightist fantasies with ideological kool aid recipes.  (As a VRWC veteran, believe it, we know the cant all by heart). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Global_Economy\/JI30Dj08.html\">Spengler over at Asia Times<\/a> argues persuasively  that new measures that fail to address how important leverage is to the average American household, let alone industry, will be a misfire.  He ends on a somewhat sanguine note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Sadly, the Asian public and private sector will continue to pour money into the United States because their home markets are not deep or secure enough to provide an alternative. America will have an extended grace period to put its house in order <u>before the rest of the world finds alternatives to its capital markets<\/u>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (Emphasis, er, emphatically ours). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open thread . . . Thoreau over at Unqualified Offerings muses that Glenn Greenwald (to use Jon Stewart voice) . . . &#8220;Nailed It !&#8221; Yorkshire Ranter sets forth a pithy analysis of the British nationalization of Bradford &#038; Bingley &#8212; and why U.S. analogies do not hold. 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