It’s been turgid TV, distinguished by self-consciously Shakespearean diction and cadence: characters spoke in full sentences that others waited for them to finish. And our society approves this haze, as proven by “Billions.” That’s the show’s achievement: to wholly conceal real economies at last. But they stigmatized it and gave it a name: “financialization.” You could shudder and realize something was going rotten. It you get that, and escape the illusion of the premise, “Billions” can help in understanding things like recent changes in China’s economic policies. Hudson sees China’s economic rejigging as an attempt to escape these logical consequences of living inside the financialized global economy.

Source: thestar October 07, 2021 21:45 UTC