Matt Stoller rebuts his critics

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4. Stoller & GG are right about the illiberal ends of the modern economy and state finance. Krugman

is right that the Austrian School and paleoconservatives such as Paul offer no realistic alternative as to the means of running a modern state financial system.

But, it is wrong of you to continually attack Stoller and GG on the grounds that the Austrians are unrealistic, and that Paul is a paleocon in some of his social policy. I don't read either Stoller or GG as so much endorsing Paul's candidacy as in pointing out the apparent flaws in Obama's conventional neoliberalism.

You have not made your case in your accusation that Stoller and GG are Paulists simply because they employ a libertarian critique of the ends of state finance embraced by Obama, Geithner and the other neoWilsonian Institutionalists running the federal government, which is an essentially reactionary and upwardly distributive system that disproportionately benefits the One Percent.