THE GRAVEST CRIME Paolo Barnard.pdf

THE GRAVEST CRIME

The postulates. A must read…………… page

This is it…………… page
(Introduction. Naming the ploy - The damage inflicted - MMT hid from view - The threat to democracy - A call to
action.)

The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs…………… page
(A historical context for the elites’ retreat - The return of Modern Money brings a great opportunity for Western
societies - A sketch of MMT - Understanding Good Deficits vs Bad Deficits - The elites plan their historical
comeback: the 4 prong plan.)

The Ideas…………… page
(The theoretical tenets of the elites’ comeback and how they were applied - Their roots in economic history in
brief - What they all had in common.)

The Early Actors…………… page
(The groundwork for the elites’ comeback as laid by the early actors in the 1930’s - Sidelining democracies is the
priority - The early masterminds in the US and Europe in more detail - Neoliberalism makes its appearance.)

The Contiguity Plan…………… page
(The post WWII period and the beginning of white collar indoctrination - The Contiguity Plan: colonizing
academia - The Foundations and the Think Tanks as main weapons - Lobbying steams ahead - The “Globocrats’”
clubs.)

The leap forward…………… page
(Lewis Powell and his Memorandum - The Trilateral Commission and the Crisis of Democracy - How these two
Neoliberal Bibles shaped the times ahead and helped destroy democracy.)

The power of ghosts…………… page
(The Neoliberal Poker: the takeover of world politics - The beginning of the end of the Left - Cementing the elites’
grip on the peoples: the power of ghosts - Ghost 1: Inflation & Ghost 2: Deficit Hysteria.)

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