und weiteres zur aktuellen Lage der Marktuniversität findet sich im Blog Storm breaking upon the university.
Turbulenzen
Jetzt ist auch eine überarbeitete und aktualisierte Fassung meines Beitrags auf dem Left Forum 2010 erschienen. Der Titel des RLS-Policy Paper 1/2010 lautet „The Turmoil within the Elite, the Course of the Crisis and the Left“.
The Masters of the Universe – a great year!
Doug Henwood, der recht beharrlich insistiert, dass die Erholung des US-Kapitalismus begonnen hat, vermerkte schon vor Wochen in seinem unverzichtbaren Blog als ein sehr deutliches Indiz:
Oh, but 2009 was a great year for the masters of the universe! The top 25 hedge fund managers pulled in an average of $1 billion last year. The man at the very top, David Tepper, took home $4 billion. Next up was that great liberal humanist, George Soros, at $3.3 billion. The poor relation at #10, Philip Falcone, hauled in $825 million. The $25 billion that this gang collectively earned would be enough to pay the tuition for about one in five college and university students in the USA. That’s only a hair less what the federal government pays in tuition assistance. Twenty-five guys (all men, by the way). What a country.
Ayn Rand
While, outside of America, Russian-born Rand is probably best known for being the unfunniest person western civilisation has seen since maybe Goebbels or Jack the Ripper (63 out of 100 colobus monkeys recently forced to read Atlas Shrugged in a laboratory setting died of boredom-induced aneurysms), in America Rand is upheld as an intellectual giant of limitless wisdom.
Matt Taibbi: Will Goldman Sachs Prove Greed is God?, in: The Guardian 24.4.2010