Global Capitalism: Smash or Crush?

Barbara Ehrenreich's take on the troubled stock market. Check it out, if only for the tongue-in-cheek phrases like "smashing the global financial system." Somewhere in the Hamptons a high-roller is cursing his cleaning lady and shaking his fists at the lawn guys. The American poor, who are usually tactful enough to remain invisible to the multi-millionaire class, suddenly leaped onto the scene and started smashing the global financial system. Incredibly enough, this may be the first case in history in which the downtrodden manage to bring down an unfair economic system without going to the trouble of a revolution.
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