Linkagogo Archive 1: Finance

Stephen Hill Linkography: Banks & Wall Street

Repost: Europe’s Promise & Wall Street gangsters
Book review: 28 December 2010 - Darwiniana. Posted in Critique of Evolutionary Economy by nemo. The American public is being exploited by economic pseudo-science, bad journalism, and the conspiracy of Wall Street gangsters, some of them on Obama’s sta3ff. It is a false ideology, totally out of control, and made worse by the way smart geekish types like Greenspan et al. promote it oblivious to reality. Hill’s book shows how the American system has gone astray, and how some form of social democracy can be successful.

Steven Hill: The insane prescription of the IMF
is repeated in Greece
In Greek - Press report of IPEDIS event held 18 October at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - posted 21 October 2010, Zoom News. (Greek reference: Παραφροσύνη η επανάληψη της συνταγής ΔΝΤ στην Ελλάδα , Δημ/ση 21 Οκτ. 2010 – Zoomnews.gr (Use Google translator). Hill argued against the IMF prescriptions for ailing Greek economy. GDP alone. He calls the American Model of Capitalism, know as Wall Street Capitalism, bankrupt because that model brought economic chaos and the crisis that plunged America into recession.

Media Speculators Miss History Being
Made In Europe
Article: October 19, 2010 - Social Europe Journal. Like financial speculators, the media likes to speculate in sensationalism and hype, dedicated to advancing their goals. Financial speculators do it to make gobs of money, and the media does it to grab eyeballs for their TV shows and newspapers. During the recent Greek debt crisis, both the financial and media speculators acted up.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Electoral Politics

Fixing Elections: The Failure of America's Winner Take All Politics
Book: published - Routledge, 2003. On November 9th 2000, two days after the presidential election, as the nation was beginning to absorb the full extent of the five-week debacle that was about to ensue, USA Today published a map (similar to the one printed on the back cover of this book) that was portentous in its message.

Study Shows "Top Two" Could Elect More Extremists, Not Moderates
Post: 10 March 2009 on a blog from New America's Political Reform Program. Here is some brand new analysis from Washington state results that might shed light on the efficacy of the top two primary, which many are promoting as a good thing for CA. It is especially directed at whether the top two would elect more moderates -- or more extremists? This evidence below suggests it's a bit of a crapshoot, the top two primary could as easily elect more extremists as elect more moderates. Follow the link above for details.

Who's Right Now? Europe's Far-Right Resurgence Fizzles Out
Article: 1 February 2003 - The American Prospect. The idea of European society as a "melting pot" or "rainbow quilt" is alien and new, and undoubtedly there will be strains for some time to come. But for the American media and punditry -- right, left and mainstream -- to portray the situation as one in which Nazis and fascists are gaining a real foothold in Europe is erroneous and hyperbolic.

Why Progressives Lose: Affirmative Action For Conservatives
Article: June 2003 - Progressive Populis. It is deeply ironic that, for all the radical conservative philosophy oozing from the ideologues of the Republican Party, low-population, conservative, and predominantly white states have benefited from the most flagrant form of representational affirmative action. The representation scheme for the U.S. Senate and Electoral College was founded on quotas for low-population states that have disproportionately favored conservative and white-dominated states for decades.

The World Wide Webbed: The Obama Campaign’s Masterful Use of the Internet
Article: 6 April 2009 - Social Europe Journal. Just as President Barack Obama has shaken up the status quo in his first 100 days in office, his campaign overturned old formulas about how to win the presidency. The Obama campaign did not focus only on battleground states, but instead charged into states that previously had been solidly Republican turf.

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Stephen Hill Linkography: Health Care Reform

Can Obama Bypass Republicans on Health?

Article: 22 February 2010 at NYTimes.com. By using reconciliation, President Obama will return the Senate to the original vision of the founders. And he will pass health care legislation that will allow millions of fellow Americans to enjoy a level of health care security that the president and the senators themselves already enjoy.

Healthcare Tests the Senate’s Credibility
Article: 30 November 2009 - Financial Times.
America’s healthcare debate has been like a tennis match, bouncing from the Senate to the House of Representatives and back again. Now it is back in the Senate, as the US tries to end its status as the only advanced economy without universal healthcare for its people.

There's No Place Like Europe: Steven Hill on Medical House Calls, Multiparty Politics, and Other American Fantasies
Interview: Monday 18 October 2010 - by Alissa Bohling for Truthout.
During this lengthy interview Hill touched on the kind of support Europeans have that Americans don't have. He gave this example: "An American friend of mine living in Toulouse France got a hornet sting when I was visiting her. She calls up her doctor and, 20 minutes later, there's the French doctor with his little black bag. What does that feel like to a person, to know that you have that kind of access to the support that you need?"

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