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Packer s Four Americas
Thumb-Sucker of the Month. Of all I ve read this month, the opinion piece that most got me thinking (although
not, in point of fact, actually sucking my thumb while doing so) was George Packer s Four Americas article in
Atlantic magazine.
Whoa there, Derb. Isn t
Atlantic a lefty outlet, with anti-white word-salad merchant Ta-Nehisi Coates on the masthead? And isn t Packer himself left-progressive?
Yes and yes. Packer s more of an old-line liberal, though (he ll turn 61 in August) and capable of talking sense for quite long stretches before lurching reflexively into mention of the dark energies behind Reaganite conservatism, or the reality of planetary destruction, or how Donald Trump aligned himself publicly with hard-core racists. I took all those quotes from the Four Americas piece; and no, Packer doesn t identify any of those hard-core racists.
I call them the Holy Trinity of Personal Finance: Savings, Taxes and Inflation. What may seem like a lot NOW may not be a lot THEN, and it may be even less AFTER you pay taxes on it.
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Last week s posts at
Moon of Alabama:
Related:
Yves Smith at her well regarded
Naked Capitalism blog also had a piece on the chip issue: The Chip Shortage: Brought to You By American Neoliberalism. However, she makes no mention of Taiwan s extensive political maneuvering which is behind the current shortage. I commented to that but that comment was not published.
Related:
This book about China is by Godfree Roberts who at times comments here. I have not yet read it but I am sure it is worthwhile:
Amazon
2020 letter - Dan Wang - This is a long read. The first parts give excellent (but not objective) insight into the political machinery of the Chinese Communist Party and how it works on China s problems. The last part is about China s very active industrial policies which enable it to counter U.S. anti-China strategies.