Article: Casino capitalism.

Casino Capitalism

"The Western financial system," Susan Strange declares in the opening sentence of her new book, "is rapidly coming to resemble nothing as much as a vast casino." In fact, the metaphor is, if anything, inadequate to convey the enormity of a problem that is perhaps best described as an explosion in the financial superstructure of the advanced capitalist economy, which is expanding both absolutely and relatively in comparison to a stagnant industrial base. Some of the concrete evidence cited in her study is suggestive of the rather ominous nature of this trend:

By 1977, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York estimated the daily turnover on ...

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