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2010-03-13 Economy

Times bigs make out big: Proles, rank-and-file hardest hit

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Posted by tu3031 2010-03-13 12:53|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 The model that the ruling caste has for the rest of us, inner party vs outer party.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-03-13 13:52|| 2010-03-13 13:52|| Front Page Top

#2 It's good to be King. Almost as good is owning special class stock with voting rights.

Posted by DMFD 2010-03-13 13:57|| 2010-03-13 13:57|| Front Page Top

#3 (*shrug*) The execs are bleeding the carcass dry before they sell it- to a fool. A story as old as vampires. But give them a pass- they're libs!!

Posted by Free Radical 2010-03-13 14:12|| 2010-03-13 14:12|| Front Page Top

#4 ... beleaguered New York Times Company ...

A phrase that warms the deeper, colder cockles of my heart ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-03-13 14:16|| 2010-03-13 14:16|| Front Page Top

#5 The execs are bleeding the carcass dry before they sell it- to a fool.

That would be Carlos Slim. Rich as he is, he's throwing his money away on this one ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-03-13 14:20|| 2010-03-13 14:20|| Front Page Top

#6 I doubt he's into it for the money you get from selling issues of the NYT per se; it's more of a loss-leader for the general project of turning the US into a feudalistic society.

And if you don't think that's working... last election the two major candidates both believed in cap and trade, the new Morgenthau Plan for the United States. And the winner has worked very hard at "sealing in" the bank crisis of late '08 so it turns into a decade-long hard depression.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-03-13 15:45|| 2010-03-13 15:45|| Front Page Top

#7 True- Mr. Slim would get something out of a controlling stake- a national newspaper that will print anything with a straight face. Walter Duranty is but one postcard-perfect example.

Posted by Free Radical 2010-03-13 16:53|| 2010-03-13 16:53|| Front Page Top

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