The Crash of 2016 by Hartmann, Thom -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Welcome Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction: Canvas Moon America

Who Stole the Back of the Moon? The Crash Just One of Us Ducks Death by Bankster Death by Globalism The Task

Part 1: The Economic Royalists and the Corporatist Conspiracy

Chapter 1: A Rendezvous with Destiny

The Great Forgetting The Economic Royalists A Crash Starts a Nation The Next Cycle: The Civil War FDR Wages War on the Royalists The Road to War: Yesterday and Today War

Chapter 2: A Corporate Call to Arms

The Sixties The Powell Memo On Campus The GOP TV Memo and Roger Ailes The Courts and the Capitol

Chapter 3: The Crisis Capitalists

Killing Keynes The Mont Pelerin Society Shock Troopers A Global Shift The “Crisis” Comes to America

Part 2: Why We Crashed

Chapter 4: A Middle-Class Primer

The Elusive Middle Class Step One: Progressive Taxation Step Two: A Social Safety Net Step Three: Protections for Working People Step Four: Rules in the Marketplace Monopoly Endgame

Chapter 5: Reagan Kidnapped the Jetsons

Tax Cuts of Mass Destruction More Unequal than Rome The “Debt” Crisis Shooting Santa Republican President Clinton A Giant Sucking Sound

Chapter 6: “Madness”

The Evolution of Madness Monopolies Return Global Psychopaths Bankster Psychopaths Financialization The 1920s All Over Again Even Worse than Before

Part 3: “Oppression, Rebellion, Reformation”

Chapter 7: A Revolution Denied

Jefferson’s Cycle of Revolutions A History of Revolution The Suicide Pact

Chapter 8: The Royalists Strike Back

A Tea Party Reimagined Meet the Kochs The Rise of the Kochtopus Fox News Gets in the Game Thwarted

Chapter 9: Betrayal on the High Court

Roberts Takes the Case The Road to Personhood Delphin Delmas v. Corporate Personhood The Roberts Court Rules

Chapter 10: Masters of the Universe

First, Greece It Spreads Little Dictators The ALEC Shadow Government Democracy Defamed Cancer Stage

Part 4: The Great Crash

Chapter 11: This Is the End

Germany Finally Wins World War II Germany Goes Too Far The Divergence and War The China Syndrome The Oil Shock Military Misadventure $1,200,000,000,000,000

Part 5: Out of the Ashes

Chapter 12: Organized People v. Organized Money

Move to Amend Take On the Court The Court Takes the Power Depose the Kings!

Chapter 13: Repair the Fundamentals

Medicare Part E Reclaim the Commons Cure Wall Street’s Madness Reinvest Card Check Printing Money Jubilee No Billionaires!

Chapter 14: Green Revolution

Decentralization The Tipping Point Stripping Oil of Its Strategic Value Tipping Point Reached

Chapter 15: Democratize the Economy

The Silent Revolution The Dragon’s Mountain The Mercedes and the Labor Union The Seeds

Chapter 16: Epilogue—A Letter to My Great-Grandchildren

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