Archive for November, 2006

More on Empires: We Americans Are Not a Wealthy People

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

In my first posting on the American Empire which is taking a somewhat more definite shape, I noted the relationship between liquid wealth and the growth of central powers. Those central powers, in the case of the United States an unholy alliance of politicians and corporate capitalists, will see liquid wealth as so much booty [...]