210 - August 1990 Market mullahs Economic common sense may be the most harmful fundamentalism of all. Tom Walkom exposes the successful propaganda offensive of the true believers of finance. Listen to the television news. Chances are someone is talking about the economic fundamentals we can no longer ignore .
Chances are someone is talking about economic reality or facing hard economic facts.
What they really mean, these economists and bond traders and politicians, is that the rich should have more and the poor should quit complaining. Those are the facts to be faced. In a normal world, such people would be ignored. In a normal world, normal people would look at the UK s Margaret Thatcher on television talking about the virtue of joblessness or Canada s Brian Mulroney speaking of the importance of high interest rates and say they were nuts. In a normal world, the Thatchers and Mulroneys would be voted out of office.