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Agreed, 100 percent. But I don't get why you don't see the role of central banks in this process of economic and cultural assassination. 'What is the case for ending the Fed,' indeed! A consortium of private banks exercising complete control over the economy, doing its best to get everyone, including governments, into debt peonage, and methodically transferring wealth to the rentier class. Who do you think "loans" the (created-from-scratch) "money" that eventually necessitates austerity and the surrendering of public assets to private predators?pitbull wrote: ↑April 18th, 2019, 8:49 pmYes, the capitalist West did a number on Yugoslavia. By putting groups against each other and by spreading the gospel of fiscal austerity, deregulation, “free trade,” privatization, and draconian public sector downsizing and most of all: more money for the winners. The outcome was strikingly similar to what we’ve seen in Greece: stagnant growth (almost no per capita income growth for the twenty years from 1980-2000), rising poverty, declining living standards for millions, and plenty of new opportunities for international capitalist investors and corporations to make a quick buck.