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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlease tell me this guy is satire. A Poe. A grossly exaggerated fictitious character.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/harrybinswanger/2013/09/17/give-back-yes-its-time-for-the-99-to-give-back-to-the-1/Jim__
(14,083 posts)IOW, he's an asshole.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Sadly, I think he's being for real. Ayn Rand/Ludwig Von Mises fans really ARE a bunch of stupid people who think they're smart.
bobclark86
(1,415 posts)"Instead, we live in a culture where Goldman Sachs is smeared as a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity. Thats for the sin of successful investing, channeling savings to their most productive uses."
Oh, so THAT'S why they needed half a TRILLION dollars in loans. OK, they sure did a good job...
bemildred
(90,061 posts)If a Poe, a good one.
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Archae
(46,344 posts)He's an Ayn Rand groupie, that's for sure.
2ndAmForComputers
(3,527 posts)HOLY CRAP, you're right.
I guess it's OK for me to defend bank robbery then, yes?
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)The Anti-Capitalist Offensive
Harry Binswanger (2002.08.09 )
http://capitalismmagazine.com/2002/08/the-anti-capitalist-offensive/
deutsey
(20,166 posts)People like him don't feel they have to couch what they really think in euphemisms like "trickle-down economics" anymore.
He's relishing the restoration of the aristocracy/peon gap that the 20th century diminished for a while.