Puerto Rico Update: Forests, Power, Depopulation, and Privatization
Puerto Rico’s situation is causing Naomi Klein to rethink “shock doctrine.”
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Meet the Democrats’ ‘Dirty Dozen’ Working to Gut Financial Reforms
Yet again, the Democrats sell out voters to moneyed backers, this time ones in the banking industry.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Trump’s Travesty of Protectionism
Why Trump’s tariffs hit the wrong target.
Read more...Monetary Policy and Fiscal Discipline: How the ECB Planted the Seeds of the Euro Area Crisis
How the ECB did Euro-area member states a dirty when it tried to act as deficit enforcer.
Read more...Trump’s Steel and Aluminum Tariffs: How WTO Retaliation Typically Works
A review of some of the permitted counter-moves under WTO rules if Trump imposes tariffs.
Read more...How Cuba Became a Biopharma Juggernaut
Cuba’s entirely state-owned biopharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful, and can serve as a model for other nations.
Read more...Crash Out Brexit Now the Defender Position
Brace yourselves! Why a “crash out” Brexit is now the most likely outcome.
Read more...How the Democrat’s Corrupt Congressional Pay-to-Play Machine Sabotages Progressives and the Popular Will
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a study in corruption and a vehicle for maintaining elite control.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Slams Democrats for Helping Gut Financial Regulations
The financial services industry is about to get even more unnecessary, risk-feeding breaks, thanks in no small measure to Democrats.
Read more...Killing a Parasite, Part 2 — How to Implement Student Debt Cancellation
How to fix the student problem – now and going forward.
Read more...So Bad the DoJ Woke Up: Saline Bag Makers Look to Have Endangered Patients Via Illegal “Tying” and Price Gouging
Saline bags are a new example of medical industrial complex rent extraction that also put patients at risk.
Read more...Weak States: Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia
Why it might make sense to pay heed on what the Mafia hath wrought….
Read more...Top NYT Editor: ‘We Are Pro-Capitalism, the Times Is in Favor of Capitalism’
The Times swears its fealty to the 10%, um, capitalism…
Read more...Trump’s Tariff Threat to Kick Off Trade War?
Trump is threatening to kick off a trade slugfest via tariffs on steel and aluminum. Will he follow through?
Read more...With Official Unemployment This Low, Why Are Wages Rising So Slowly?
Why has wage growth been lousy in a supposed recovery? Thank your politicians for fostering the growth of the precariat.
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