I'm not too sure what you're angry at here. If i recall her book correctly I remember thinking she was far too kind to silicon valley types in it and not scorching the earth enough, but I gave her a pass because I figured she's also writing for Americans. Hard arguments against capitalism can be found elsewhere but America over 40 is too stuck in the financialized system to listen to them ("WHAT ABOUT STALIN? CHECK MATE. THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE."). I don't especially care about the TED talk because it's a TED talk.
I mean, i'm not an economist but my laymans understanding of quantitative easing is that it makes the rich richer (we did not give freshly printed money to the poor after 2008, we handed it back to the people who caused the crisis in the first place), which is why it's seen as a lovely solution by those with their hands on the levers of power every-time capitalism fails - it forces austerity on the poorest; who are acutely aware that no matter what is "underneath" the veneer, if they don't have enough of it this month then they're out on the street.
Anyway, we'll see how well Bernie does and how the standard democratic establishment reacts.
I'll write you an add-on for your browser that replaces "one fourth" with "one quarter" if that's the hill you want to die on here.
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