Has there been a quiet coup?
In the May 2009 edition of the Atlantic monthly there was an influential article by the former chief economist of the IMF and Professor of Economics at MIT, Simon Johnson. Titled 'The Quiet Coup', it claimed that the financial industry has effectively captured the United States government. At that time, I was fairly persuaded. Evidence of the dominance …
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