Ken Silverstein: KEN SILVERSTEINThe Financial Crisis, the IMF and Karl Marx

Another good piece of writing by Ken Silverstein of the Harper’s Magazine.

The Atlantic has a good piece in its current issue called The Quiet Coup: How bankers took power, and how theyre impeding recovery , written by a former IMF official named Simon Johnson. He describes the U.S. as potentially an emerging banana republic, saying, [E]lite business interestsfinanciers, in the case of the U.S.played a central role in creating the crisis, making ever-larger gamb…

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