http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/images/latuff_crise.gifArms Sales: A government jobs program (the lone acceptable government jobs program) working to deliver all the latest in U.S. defense industry hardware to all the international "good guys." Associate: A low-wage worker. Bubble (Financial): The artificial inflation of asset prices, which, although appearing to many of the "smartest people in the room" as if they are to continue rising indefinitely, ultimately come to crash with the inevitable popping of the bubble. Business Cycle: Bubble recklessly inflated ® bubble catastrophically pops ® repeat. . . .

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