Greenspan was also the perfect front man for the hijacking of the democratic process that took place in the eighties, nineties, and the early part of the 2000s. During that time political power gradually shifted from the elected government to private and semiprivate institutions run by unelected officials whose sympathies were with their own class rather than any popular constituency. We suffered a series of economic shocks over the course of those years, and the official response from the institutions subtly pushed the country’s remaining private wealth to one side while continually shifting
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