Uppity Women and Morons
I'm getting sick of writing about this whole Milton Friedman faith
based economic theory. I'm weary of bleating about the Ayn Rand
cultists and how they have ruined my country. (I've written numerouus essays on
Sheldon Wolin's "Democracy Inc: Managed Democracy and Inverted
Totalitarianism and on Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine".) When will
we ever learn that "the smartest guys in the room" are dangerously
close to actually being morons. (See Footnote on Ellsberg and Morons from Perlstein's "Nixonland".)
How many times have I as a woman rolled my eyes at utter stupidity coming out of male bosses' mouths? How many insufferable conversations at the local watering hole did I have sit through before I learned to say, "Enough, you are speaking gibberish."
How many times have I as a woman rolled my eyes at utter stupidity coming out of male bosses' mouths? How many insufferable conversations at the local watering hole did I have sit through before I learned to say, "Enough, you are speaking gibberish."
Turns out that another one of those uppity women was annoying the
"three marketeers", Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, and Lawrence Summers
back in the 1990's.
Katrina Vanden Heuvel has the story at The Nation.com and
alternet.org. "The Woman Who Could Have Prevented this Mess Was
Silenced by Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers." The woman's name is
Brooksley Born who 10 years ago was the head of the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission. http://www.alternet.org/workpl...
