Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right
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Blow, Charles
Blumenthal, Sidney
Boehner, John
bond traders
Bonus Army
bonuses
Bork, Robert
Boston Tea Party
BP spill
Brinkley, Alan
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (Harburg)
Brown, Scott
Bryan, William Jennings
budget, balancing
Bunch, Will
Bunzel, John
Burns, Jennifer
Bush, George W.
Beck and
crisis and bailouts and
regulation and
tax cuts and
wiretapping and
business cycle
business leaders. See also big business; small business
Atlas Shrugged and
crash of 2008 and
Depression and
as job creators
Cain, Herman
California
campaign contributions
Canseco, Francisco
cap-and-trade proposal
capitalism. See also free market
Atlas Shrugged and
crisis of 2008–9 and
Depression and
Right’s defense of
utopian
Capitalism (Beck)
Capra, Frank
Carender, Keli
Carnegie, Dale
Cato Institute
Cheney, Dick
Chicago, University of
Chicago Board of Trade
children’s literature
Chile
Chomsky, Noam
Chrysler
Churchill, Winston
CIA
Citibank
Cleaver, Emanuel
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Cloward, Richard
CNBC
coal miners
Code Red rally
Codevilla, Angelo
collateralized debt obligations
colleges and universities
Commodity Futures Modernization Act
communism
Community Reinvestment Act (1977)
compromise
Conservative Action Project
ConservativeHQ (website)
Conservative Political Action Conference
conservatives. See Right-wing revival
construction industry
consumer advocates
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (2008)
Continetti, Matthew
Contract from America (2009–10)
Contract with America (1994)
Coolidge, Calvin
Coughlin, Father Charles
Council of Economic Advisers
Cowley, Malcolm
CPAC
credit-card rules
credit default swaps
Crimes Against Liberty (Limbaugh)
Crist, Don
cronyism
Culture of Corruption (Malkin)
culture wars
Daily Worker
Daley, Bill
Daschle, Tom
“death panels”
debt-ceiling debate
debt securitization
Declaration of Independence
Dedication and Leadership (Hyde)
deficit spending
DeLay, Tom
DeMint, Jim
democracy
Democratic Party
bailouts and
banks and
Beck vs.
Depression and
donors and
election losses of 2010
health-care reform and
labor unions and
laissez-faire and
Obama and
populist outcry not heeded by
Denning, Michael
deregulation
derivatives
disaster relief
DLA Piper firm
Dodd, Chris
Dodd-Frank financial reform bill
“Don’t Tread on Me” flag
Don’t Tread on Us (Karis)
Dow Jones Industrial Average
“Down with Big Business” (Ryan)
Drucker, Peter
Dukakis, Michael
Duke, C. Jesse
earmarks
economic growth
economic orthodoxy
education
“Effect of Falling Home Princes on Small Business Borrowing, The” (Schweitzer and Shane)
elections
of 2008
of 2010
electoral system
elites. See also “ruling class”
Emanuel, Rahm
End of Economic Man, The (Drucker)
Enron
entrepreneurship. See also small business
environmentalism
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Erickson, Erick
Failure of Capitalism, A (Posner)
Fannie Mae
farmers
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Farm Security Administration
fascism. See also Nazis
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
federal regulatory agencies. See also deregulation; regulation; and specific agencies
Federal Reserve
Ferguson, Charles
Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
financial crisis of 2008. See also bailouts; Wall Street
minority lending and
populist response to (see also populism)
utopian capitalism as response to
Flatt, Dickey
Forbes
Forbes, Steve
“forgotten man”
Forgotten Man, The (Shlaes)
Fox, Justin
Fox News
France
Frank, Barney
Franklin, Benjamin
Freddie Mac
FreedomWorks
free market. See also capitalism
Democrats and
deification of
effect of unregulated
free trade
Frum, David
Fukuyama, Francis
“Fundraising Secrets for Tea Party Leaders” (DVD)
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Galt, John (fictional character)
Geithner, Tim
General Electric (GE)
General Motors
“Get Back” flag
Ghostbusters (film)
Gingrich, Newt
Give Us Liberty (Armey and Kibbe)
Glass-Steagall Act (1933)
Glenn Beck Program, The (TV show)
“God Save the Queen” (Sex Pistols)
Gohmert, Louie
Goldman Sachs
gold standard
GOOOH
Graham, Michael
Gramm, Phil
Grapes of Wrath, The (Steinbeck)
Gray, Harold
Great Britain
Great Depression
Atlas Shrugged and
attack on “ruling class” and
Beck and
culture of, mimicked by Right
hard-times scenario and
Great Northern Railway
Great Recession
Greenberg, Stanley
Greenspan, Alan
Gregoire, Christine
Guantánamo
Guardian Weekly
Gullett, Charly
Guthrie, Woody
Hannity, Sean
Hanson, Stephen D.
Harburg, Yip
hard-times scenario
Crash of 2008 and
Depression and
disavowed by Democrats
mimicry of, by Right
Hard Times (Terkel)
Hayek, Friedrich
; Hayworth, Nan
health-care industry
health-care reform
Democrats and
Right attacks on
town halls and
Hearst, William Randolph
hedge-funds
Hedrick, David W.
Heritage Foundation
Hill, Napoleon
Hodgson, Godfrey
Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP)
homeowners
Hoover, Herbert
housing bubble
How Capitalism Will Save Us (Forbes)
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie)
Hussein, Saddam
Hyde, Douglas, 127I
iCaucus
IndyMac
inequality
inheritance tax
Inside Job (documentary)
Insull, Samuel
insurance industry
intellectuals
Internet
internment camps
investment banks
Iowa
Iran-Contra
Iraq
Italy
Jackson, Andrew
Jarvis, Howard
Jefferson, Thomas
job creators
Job Creators Caucus
Joe the Plumber
“John Doe in Post-9/11 America” (Malkin)
John Doe Movement
Johnson, Ron
Jones, Jesse
JP Morgan Chase
“Kahane, David” (pseudonym)
Kempton, Murray
Kennedy, Ted
Kerpen, Phil
Keynes, John Maynard
Kibbe, Matt
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kirk, Mark
Klein, Naomi
Koch, Charles
Koch brothers
Kreuger Ivar
Krugman, Paul
K Street Project
Labor Department
labor unions
laissez-faire
Left
fear of
mimicry of, by Right
Lehman Brothers
Lepore, Jill
“Lessons from the Great Depression” (Romer)
“let the failures fail”
Lewis, John
Lewis, Michael
Liberal Claus, The (Hedrick)
liberalism
libertarians
Liberty XPO
Limbaugh, David
Limbaugh, Rush
limited-capitalism model
Lincoln, Abraham
liquidationists
Little Orphan Annie (comic strip)
lobbyists
Long, Huey
Lucas, Robert
Ludwig von Mises Institute
“Machine, The” (advertisement)
Madrick, Jeff
Making of GBTV, The (video)
Malkin, Michelle
March on Washington (1963)
Marianas Islands sweatshops
Marx, Karl
Massey Energy
Matthews, J. B.
McCain, John
McCarran Act (1950)
McCarthyism
McElvaine, Robert
Media Research Center (MRC)
Medicare
Meehan, Pat
Meese, Ed
Meet John Doe (film)
Mellon, Andrew
Mercury Radio Arts
Mercury Theatre
Merrill Lynch
Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man (Hardy)
Mills, C. Wright
Mises, Ludwig von
monopolies
Moore, Stephen
Morgan Stanley
mortgage-backed securities
mortgage industry
foreclosures and
lack of regulation of
Santelli and
subprime
underwater homeowners and
Mount Vernon Statement
MSNBC (cable TV channel)
Murdoch, Rupert
Muse (rock band)
“My Papa is a Capitalist” (Beck)
Myth of the Rational Market, The (Fox)
NAACP
Nation
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
“National Day of Strike”
National Economic Council
National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
National Journal
National Review
National Review Online
National Tea Party Convention (Nashville, 2010)
Nation’s Business
Nazis
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Nebraska
neoliberalism
net neutrality
Network (film)
New Deal
Newsweek
“socialism” cover
New York magazine
New York Times
9/11
9/12 Project
912 Citizens, Inc.
Nixon, Richard M.
Norquist, Grover
Norris, Chuck
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Nugent, Ted
Obama, Barack
Atlas Shrugged and
bailouts and
campaign donors and
conservative depictions of
debt-ceiling debate and
elections of 2008 and
elections of 2010 and
health-care reform and
Iraq War and
populist outcry not heeded by
regulation and
small business and
Obama, Michelle
“Obama’s Enemy List”
Objectivism
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Official Tea Party Handbook (Gullett)
O’Hara, John
oil industry
oligopolies
“Out with the Ruling Class” (watch party)
Overton Window, The (Beck)
Paine, Tom
Palin, Sarah
Parker, Kathleen
Part of Our Time (Kempton)
Patman, Wright
Patriot Act
Patriot’s Club (website)
“Patriots Qualification Cards”
Paul, Rand
Paulson, Hank
Pelosi, Nancy
pension funds
Persecution of Sarah Palin, The (Continetti)
Phillips, Tim
Piven, Frances Fox
Pizzella, Patrick
Polanyi, Karl
Politico
Pompeo, Mike
positive thinking
Posner, Richard
privatization
Prohibition
proletarian fiction
Proposition 13
public schools
public works
Quayle, Ben
racism
railroads
“Rallies for America”
Rally to Restore Sanity
Rand, Ayn
ratings agencies
rattlesnake symbol
Rauchway, Eric
Reagan, Ronald
Real America, The (Beck)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
Redeclaration of Independence
Red State Uprising
regulation. See also deregulation; and specific agencies
attack on
Depression and
enforcement and
financial crisis and
Obama and
Rand and
utopian capitalism vs.
Republican Party
elections of 1994 and
elections of 2008 and
elections of 2010 and
expectations of, in 2008
TARP and
Tea Party and revival of
Return of Depression Economics, The (Krugman)
&n
bsp; Rivera, David
Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek)
Romer, Christina
Romney, Mitt
Roosevelt, Franklin
Beck and
“forgotten man” and
Obama and
RFC and
Ryan and
Rothenberg, Stu
Rubin, Robert
Rules for Radical Conservatives (“Kahane”)
“ruling class”
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot (Franken)
Ryan, Paul
same-sex marriage
Samuelson, Robert
Santelli, Rick
Saving Freedom (DeMint)
Schlesinger, Arthur
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
Schweikert, David
Schweitzer, Mark
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Seldes, Gilbert
Sex Pistols
Shane, Scott
Shlaes, Amity
shock therapy
Slouching Towards Gomorrah (Bork)
“Small Business Bill of Rights”
small business. See also entrepreneurship
bailouts and
Democrats failure to capture outrage of
failure and
as front for big business
health reform and
housing crisis and
job creation and
as ordinary Americans
populist heroism and
regulation and
Small Business Week
social classes. See also Country Class; “Ruling Class”
class war and
Depression and
obfuscation of
social insurance
socialism
socialist realism
Social Security
software industry
Soros, George
Soviet Union
Spread This Wealth (Duke)
“Star Spangled Banner”
Steinbeck, John
Stewart, Jon
stimulus
Strange Death of Republican America, The (Blumenthal)
strikes