Fox’s “Beavis” Gutfeld (of the “Beavis” Gutfeld and Buttheads Show) ranted “Give me an example where industries got together in a room and decided to drastically increase prices! That doesn’t exist!” His ignorant, self-righteousness only displayed his ignorance of economic history.
Ever heard of the Sherman Anti-Trust Bill and why it was enacted into law? Or the Unfair Trade Practices Law? Or the Federal Trade Commission‘s rules against corporations’ colluding to form monopolies? The reasons for all these is due to the incessant attempts for businesses throughout American history to band together to form monopolies in order to increase prices. (see: Memo to Brian Kilmead: Show Me Proof of Price-gouging this site dated 2024/06/06.
It was directly due to the penchant for profiteering industrialists, corporations and the few rich corrupt avoidance of taxes; bribery of state officials for sweetheart deals enriching the rich at the expense of the tax payers; and impunity from the law that the Income Tax was created. (see: Myers, History of the Great American Fortunes. p. 182.
I wouldn’t expect someone who doesn’t know who won the War of 1812 (or much of anything else) to know much anything outside your own emotionally based “research – less” tirades.
Yes, the Left and Kamallah are communists and crazy Useful Idiots. But you and your associate Wealth Worshipping Panderers who depend on the rich Right to pay your salaries are as myopic on the Right as Kamallah et al are on the Left.
(see: Annals of America, Vols. 1-22; and Collectanea of Conservative Quotes, Vols. 1-3 by this author; The History of the Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers, 1904; The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman, 2014; 768 pgs, and Trading With the Enemy: An Expose’ of the Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949 by Charles Higham, 1983.
“Financial panics are but the easy means by which the very rich are enabled to get possession of more and more and more of the general public’s money and property.” – Gustavus Myers, History of the Great American Fortunes, 1936; 730 pgs.
Knowing this gives them every incentive to create (and preserve) laws and regulations that enable Wall Street to fabricate such financial crises – which explains why both Parties in Congress rescinded every law remedying the 2008 Mortgage Financial Crisis two years after passing them.
It might help your credibility if you spent a modicum of time reading and researching your subjects – instead of mimicking the Left’s proclivity for substituting profanity for rational thought.
Your show is like a mini-coliseum of vitriol populated by a zoo of characters who know as little as you do about what you’re talking about – except for Emily Compagno. She’s the only normal person on your show who knows what she’s talking about.
She should be sitting in your chair.
