I sometimes wonder if most formerly “middle-class” Americans really understand what hit them, and why, when the economy tanked in 2008. Robert Scheer takes a crack at summing up the catastrophe with what seems to me a perfect metaphor. But then again, I used to work in Atlantic City. More here.
You know that old canard about Banksters jumping from windows on Black Tuesday? It’s just that, a canard, history rewritten by those who get away with it.
They didn’t jump. They were thrown. Rightfully so.