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Economy
Are We Brewing a New Feudalism?
2020-04-20
[PaulCraigRoberts] The answer to the question is "YES." The large bailed-out creditors will end up with the property of the non-bailed-out debtors who are being pushed deeper into debt with "bail-out loans" and fees and penalties for missed debt payments. Write-offs for the One Percent, and more indebtedness for everyone else.

Turn your mind to the economy. The US has a work force of 164,000,000. The unemployment forecast from the work closedowns is 30%. That would mean 49,000,000 people who are potential rioters. (We are half way there with today's report of a 16% unemployment rate with 22 million unemployed). Many of these people were already living paycheck to paycheck, could not raise $400, and their debts leave them no discretionary income. As they could barely service their debts when employed, how do they service them when unemployed and when their small businesses are closed and incurring costs but have no revenues? Loans further indebt them. The cash payouts to the unemployed might cover food and housing but will not service their debts.

Fast food franchises and stores in malls are saying they are not paying their rents for three months. Mall owners won't be able to pay their creditors. The bailout works for no one except those who caused the problem. As they are being bailed out, they will have the money to buy up or foreclose on the bankrupted businesses. More property will be concentrated in fewer hands.
Posted by:Clem

#13  ^Every other nocta as well.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-20 13:53  

#12  #9 /\Indeed, the concept of noblesse oblige is foreign to them.

They love that prima nocta though.

Whether it was real or not.
Posted by: charger   2020-04-20 13:49  

#11  Well the Dhimmicrap, deep state and media sure are. Our reaction is why Trump was elected.
Posted by: Woodrow   2020-04-20 12:49  

#10  Looking like we are headed for recession and inflation. No way that combo doesn't wipe out the middle class.
Posted by: Iblis   2020-04-20 12:45  

#9  /\Indeed, the concept of noblesse oblige is foreign to them.
Posted by: magpie   2020-04-20 12:20  

#8  Feudalism implies bidirectional obligations
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB   2020-04-20 09:53  

#7  The biggest debt slave program is college student loans. It only gets worse after that.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-04-20 09:23  

#6  Lend money to state to subsidise your investments, collect interest and profit.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-04-20 07:21  

#5  It's done by indenturing this and future generations to paying for it all.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-04-20 07:08  

#4  New Feudalism? Tell me when the last one ended?

Even more feudalism than before perhaps.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-04-20 04:42  

#3  I think the proper term is Assholes.
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper   2020-04-20 03:10  

#2  I think the proper term is Oligarchy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-04-20 01:59  

#1  The elite have failed us too many times. It is time to dethrone them.

35 years of failure by these buffoons:
- the Amnesty Bill idiocy in 1986
- the botched Iraq/Afgh wars
- the botched response to the market meltdown of 2008
- the 30-year China
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-20 00:47  

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