Real Economics. (What the ACTUAL Experts say):

From your link, Kemo Sabe:

"If you haven't heard of Professor Stiglitz, he's credited with pioneering the concept of "the 1 per cent."

That refers to the modern phenomenon of the top 1 per cent of Americans (or more precisely, the top one-tenth of 1 per cent) that have accrued so much wealth and power in recent decades that it's imperilling the US political system."

In the video clip accompanying this article, Prof. Stiglitz has nothing good to say about Trump or Republicans in general, but if he thinks the Democrats are likely to lead the US out of the situation he describes, I think he is mistaken. Politicians that have almost without exception made careers of using their offices to put themselves in the top 1% are hardly apt to change the system that has bought and paid for them.

I mean I like the dig at the Austrian School with the title. And I don't disagree with the analysis of neo liberalism, but I see the same tired idea of the "Scandinavian model" being some magic fix that also ignores completely that that system is really only possible through unequal exchange and neo-colonialism.

Quite an interesting read. I'll take time to mull that over

To understand the power of fake news in the US I suggest digging into the history of William Hurst Vs sharpshooter Annie Oakley. I reference the “sharpshooter” Oakley because Hurst used the misdeeds of another person named Annie Oakley to fill his headlines from coast to coast..

Our freedom of the press is often used as a freedom to lie without consequences

I'll read that.