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Geithner’s “Mussolini-style Corporatism”

The idea that certain large, politically connected private firms are essential to commonweal and must be supported at all costs by the state is quite the essence of “Mussolini-style Corporatism“. …What’s good for Citibank is not what’s good for America.

via seekingalpha.com

And even Obama supporter Warren Buffett is complaining that “Government is determining the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots.’ That is why companies are rushing to convert to bank holding companies, not a course feasible for Berkshire.” He says Berkshire and its pristine credit can’t compete with the cheap money flowing to “financial cripple[s] with a government guarantee[.]”

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