Republican Plans Come into Focus: Sell off the Country Like an LBO

What do capitalists do? They buy up companies, destroy them, raid the pension funds, and sell off the leftover parts. They’re running out of companies, and pension funds, to raid, so now it’s the good old USA’s turn.

Fun with Little Green Stamps in a Book Before the Massacre

This morning, a social media picture of S&H green stamps reminded me of the 1985 leverage buyout that destroyed Wieboldt Stores Inc., a local Chicago small appliance retailer. When I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s, my…