what a lovely self expose !!!

under the decisive surface

the robust gestures

the merit elite robes

we find
over chewed
bubble gum
and
when push comes to summation...hen scratch

examples ..at random :

after lining up gentle ben and milty on one side
keynes on the other
to leave the right fudge mark :

"This is not exactly the same view as Keynes
but the differences are smaller
than most people realize"

in a moment of deepest penetration...

"state is itself a very powerful enterprise"

to end with a master stroke ....

"I am able to feel the power of his arguments and yet retain my own uneasy combination of neoliberalism and social democracy"

oh by the way

fresh from the policy room.....

"We badly need a sophisticated,
flexible, and reality-based
intellectual toolkit
to analyze different cases.
We do not have one...."

seeing beyond even the mighty one
all the way to Berlin.....

"he (milty)
was completely incapable of seeing that political liberty is both a negative and a positive liberty"

and unlock its meaning

"freedom from tyranny and oppression
but also the freedom and power to decide
on and accomplish our common purposes"

brad
i understand you perfectly now....
to pinch my structure from a master's master:

i feel the power of your arguments
and yet retain the pasty treacle taste
of your
facile loose jointed
combination
of yesterdays squad car
neoliberalism
and bismark's
hood wink social democracy

i hope this piece
is in your obit

you deserve every rubbery fragulated
jejune tub thumping
synchro-tistic word of it
bronzed
and hung next to
your puggy little baby shoes
and
your butter and scalping knives

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coda:

" These are the master questions of history and moral philosophy
and for all his brilliance and hard work
Friedman is of absolutely no help in answering them"

and neither is brad delong

here is actual hide boundness
that saw nothing to learn
in japan's recent plight

"To Keynes, stronger and more drastic strategic interventions were needed to boost or curb demand directly"

ask say krug
if this truth has not resurfaced

but nope
the neo liberal
ekitest commanding heights
fed action suffices bilge

" Friedman ...argued ... this was a misreading of the lessons of the Great Depression"

which in reality were

" ..monetary mismanagement "

" Over the course of 40 years
his position carried the day:
Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke
(and cousin brad)
hold(s) Friedman’s view, not Keynes’s."

typical neo liberal blow harding

they learn nothing
and
forgive nothing

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17 th century liberty

as sovereign restraint

ie
keep your
hands off
private propoerty

the rights of individuals uber alles

restrict
the collective action
of society

the notion here is
private property rights
coming as close as sanity allows
to trumping all else in sight