As a result of the shareholder revolution, the money that once went to expansion and new ventures has gone instead into shareholders’ pockets.
ROBERT STEELE: A very fine article that is amply supported by the cited sources and many others — for example, Peter Linebaugh's STOP THIEF and Richard Wolff's Occupy the Economy: Confronting Capitalism. Matt Taibbi's GRIFTOPIA addresses the hidden planet: it has been the capture of the government by 42 billionaires, and the total marginalization of the US Constitution (Article 1, for example) that has allowed these financial atrocities to occur — along with a media that is half captive and half witless. Open Power — the book is #4 in Amazon Kindle Civics today — is the answer. FIRST, electoral reform — then a wholesale cleansing of the corporate and banking stables.
See Also:
2014 Robert Steele Answers to Richard Olivier on 21st Leadership with Annotated Bibliography & Links
Worth a Look: Democracy Lost & Found Essay, Book Review Blurbs and Links [Updated 7 January 2015]
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