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Paul Craig Roberts

Economist United States 1939–present

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If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism's carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end up dead from the external costs of capitalism.
Paul Craig Roberts
It is impossible to work out a reduction in nuclear threat as long as one side is going all out to demonize the other.
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As the dollar's exchange value declines, so will the value of dollar-denominated financial instruments, regardless of how many bonds the Federal Reserve purchases.
Paul Craig Roberts
The Federal Trade Commission is supposed to enforce U.S. anti-trust law. Instead, the federal agency routinely violates U.S. anti-trust law by permitting monopoly concentrations of business interests.
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The real Social Security crisis is that the government does not have the money to redeem its IOUs.
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It is the nature of government and of technology to establish control.
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In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society.
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I have no sympathy for debunking human achievements that, in the end, gave ordinary people liberty.
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Clearly America is exceptional in its immorality, lack of human compassion, and disrespect for law and its founding document.
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Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.
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The Western media is a Ministry of Truth that operates full-time in support of the artificial existence that Westerners live inside The Matrix where Westerners exist without thought. Considering their inaptitude and inaction, Western peoples might as well not exist.
Paul Craig Roberts
Whether one has a favorable or unfavorable opinion of unions, their demise is also the demise of countervailing power. A system in which there is no countervailing power is a tyranny in which power is unconstrained and unaccountable.
Paul Craig Roberts