S u rely we can't fai l to notice that th i s i s hap - pening! Th e very notion of a ki nd of capitalism fuelled by capital from somewhere else, out of sight of any true production and based on weightless speculation, is nothi ng more than a market lure, an economic aberration that leads straight to the dreaded system ic crisis - l ike those hedge fu nds whose accounts departments are exiled these days in ofshore h avens, fiscal p aradises, where they are managed by what often comes down to some minuscule team that can work in an apartment, the speculative fund having no real legal status.
THE GREAT ACCELERATOR
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