Naomi Klein: How Corporate Branding Is Taking Over America
For me, the appeal of X-raying brands such as Nike or Starbucks was that pretty soon you were talking about everything except marketing -- from how products are made in the deregulated global supply chain to industrial agriculture and commodity prices. Next thing you knew you were also talking about the nexus of politics and money that locked in these wild-west rules through free-trade deals and at the WTO, and made following them the precondition of receiving much-needed loans from the International Monetary Fund. In short, you were talking about how the world works.
He added: "I am ready for a fight. People need to have faith in the financial system they are going to be indebted to until the day they die." Tom Logan, chief economist at Madeley-Finnegan, backed the reforms and stressed that everything got much worse in 1999 after President Clinton decided that banks were allowed to do two slightly different things at the same time. Mr Obama, who set out his radical plan in response to excessive Republican voting in Massachusetts, said banks must be broken up into a series of smaller and more risk-averse institutions that will continue to bleed you like a slaughtered pig.
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