{"id":1497,"date":"2012-09-01T11:05:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T18:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2012-09-01T15:15:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T22:15:39","slug":"david-stockman-on-crony-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1497","title":{"rendered":"David Stockman on Crony Capitalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1497\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>If anyone knows about \u201ccrony capitalism\u201d, it\u2019s David Stockman. Stockman was a Republican stalwart and budget director for Ronald Reagan who helped shape Reagan\u2019s failed campaign of supply-side (or trickle-down) economics. In the following interview with Bill Moyers, Stockman discusses the fundamental corruption of the American politico-economic system. His assumptions are still quintessentially capitalist, but his insider&#8217;s analysis of America&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plutocracy\" target=\"_blank\">plutocracy<\/a> is nevertheless fascinating.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/35369616?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"middle\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone knows about \u201ccrony capitalism\u201d, it\u2019s David Stockman. Stockman was a Republican stalwart and budget director for Ronald Reagan who helped shape Reagan\u2019s failed campaign of supply-side (or trickle-down) economics. In the following interview with Bill Moyers, Stockman discusses the fundamental corruption of the American politico-economic system. His assumptions are still quintessentially capitalist, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[132,133,135,134],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-politics","category-economic-issues","tag-capitalism","tag-crony","tag-middle-age","tag-plutocracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}