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Clint Ballinger — The Souls of the People

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This sixteen-part series, The Souls of the People, will explore these issues and the ideas and economics behind them. The values, origins, economics and philosophy behind the call “to drown the baby” that is our own government, the creation of think tanks specifically to provide a pseudo-intellectual foundation for inequality. The rise, reasons for, and effect of beliefs that markets without law allow for full employment and that wage laws cause unemployment. That competition alone can bring about good working conditions. The rejection of progressive taxes, the right to avail ourselves of the power and resources of the country through organizing public goods, and most important of all, the way law enriches the wealthy while simultaneously empowering the wealthy to stop change on these

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This sixteen-part series, The Souls of the People, will explore these issues and the ideas and economics behind them. The values, origins, economics and philosophy behind the call “to drown the baby” that is our own government, the creation of think tanks specifically to provide a pseudo-intellectual foundation for inequality. The rise, reasons for, and effect of beliefs that markets without law allow for full employment and that wage laws cause unemployment. That competition alone can bring about good working conditions. The rejection of progressive taxes, the right to avail ourselves of the power and resources of the country through organizing public goods, and most important of all, the way law enriches the wealthy while simultaneously empowering the wealthy to stop change on these issues from happening.

If the laws don’t change, inequality will worsen. If inequality worsens, the laws won’t change. It is hard to know where to start....

Clint Ballinger
The Souls of the People
Mike Norman
Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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