Was Martin Luther King a Socialist?
A new book corrects the tendency of biographers and commentators to airbrush out Martin Luther King’s socialist leanings.
Read more...Author Archives: Yves Smith
Links 7/5/18
Iran Threatens To Close the Strait of Hormuz
Yves here. A map of the Strait of Hormuz and environs seemed a useful addition. The danger, as the article insinuates, is that if things got that far, a conflict over the Strait of Hormuz would escalate into a full-scale conflagration. By Dr. Cyril Widdershoven, a long-time observer of the global energy market. Presently, he […]
Read more...Richard Murphy: Ignore the Gini Coefficient – Real Inequality Is Growing and People Are Suffering as a Result
More lying with statistics on the inequality front.
Read more...Links 7/4/18
Interview: Teaching Graham Elwood Modern Money, and How the Progressive Media Gets It Wrong
A case study in teaching modern money to a progressive who unknowingly has swallowed neoliberal economic ideas.
Read more...Why Don’t Americans Take More Vacations? Blame It on Independence Day
How businesses created Americanization Day, later Independence Day, to counter the rising labor movement.
Read more...Meetups Coming Soon! Friday July 6 in Chicago, Sunday July 8 in Green Bay
Reminders and details for coming meetups. See you soon!
Read more...Links 7/3/18
Anthony Kennedy and Our Delayed Constitutional Crisis
The role Justice Anthony Kennedy played in the deteriorating legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Stock Markets Look Ever More Like Ponzi Schemes
Why is it entirely sensible to regard stock markets as Ponzi schemes.
Read more...Holiday Schedule
We are taking a sort of holiday, um, staycation, um breather. Hope you get to take a break too!
Read more...EU Calls Trump’s Bluff on Auto Tariffs as Trump Tries Dead on Arrival WTO Exit Plan
The EU is neither happy with nor cowed by Trump’s latest trade threat.
Read more...Women (and Men) of the World, Unite! How to Stand Up to Extremist Orthodox Jews Who Demand You Give Up Your Airline Seat
In the last week, there have been two incidents of women relenting to pressure from airlines to give up their seats to accommodate Orthodox Jewish bigots who refused to be seated next to them. This should be as unacceptable as Klansmen asking blacks to change seats. And let us stress that the ugliest feature of […]
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