Comments on: The Occupy Wall Street protesters and the bankers share a common delusion https://www.isegoria.net/2017/08/the-occupy-wall-street-protesters-and-the-bankers-share-a-common-delusion/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 09:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Steve Johnson https://www.isegoria.net/2017/08/the-occupy-wall-street-protesters-and-the-bankers-share-a-common-delusion/comment-page-1/#comment-2572927 Steve Johnson Tue, 22 Aug 2017 01:01:28 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42234#comment-2572927 The huge underlying problem is that grow or die is a necessary consequence of having a fiat currency that runs on maturity transformation.

If you don’t grow, you don’t outpace inflation and as the growth runs out more and more of the economy ends up controlled by the people who get the first injection of new hot money. Unsurprisingly, this coincides with every business attempting to one up each other in how much they can pledge fealty to progressivism.

]]> By: Bill https://www.isegoria.net/2017/08/the-occupy-wall-street-protesters-and-the-bankers-share-a-common-delusion/comment-page-1/#comment-2572402 Bill Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:59:35 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42234#comment-2572402 Here’s the John Derbyshire article:

Faery Gold

]]> By: Michael W. Towns https://www.isegoria.net/2017/08/the-occupy-wall-street-protesters-and-the-bankers-share-a-common-delusion/comment-page-1/#comment-2572191 Michael W. Towns Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:22:51 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42234#comment-2572191 Peter Schiff?

]]> By: Random Observer https://www.isegoria.net/2017/08/the-occupy-wall-street-protesters-and-the-bankers-share-a-common-delusion/comment-page-1/#comment-2572136 Random Observer Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:37:09 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42234#comment-2572136 1. Finally something on Vox I agree with. Not that there might not be others but….

2. This is just one of the many economic possible deep truths that might keep me awake in cold sweats nightly.

3. Anyone around here remember old John Derbyshire columns from the early 2000s? He did one called something like “It’s all faery gold”. Yep.

4. Who was that conservative leaning financier who was railing about the housing bubble and the CRA all through the 2000s? Peter something? Whatever happened to that guy? Bet he didn’t get a medal.

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