The Permanent Political Class is unresponsive to our concerns and needs because it is partly immune to the economic realities the rest of us face. Its business has, in a phrase popular with money managers, downside protection and guaranteed upside potential. For crony capitalists, there is a business cycle, but they control it and can make money no matter how and when it turns. This means socialism for the Permanent Political Class and its friends—and capitalism for the rest of us.
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Peter Schweizer Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison(via David C. Lefevre) |
