Good Riddance, Alan Greenspan
Cataloguing some of the less-well recognized ways that Alan Greenspan did tremendous harm to the financial system and citizens at large.
Read more...Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents
Keir Starmer Resigns: Can Anyone Survive as Prime Minister in Today’s Britain?
Starmer post-mortems raise questions about what next for what passes for UK leadership.
Read more...What Would Happen if the UK Tried to, or Did, Repay Its National Debt?
The leadership contest in the UK is set to produce yet more flogging of bad neoliberal tropes, so this post provides a needed counterpoint.
Read more...How Local Communities Are Challenging Big Tech Data Centers’ Noise, Pollution and Rising Electricity Bills
Opposition to data centers and AI is rising, both at the community and the consumer level.
Read more...What Americans Can Learn from London’s War on Cars
To what degree can the US clap down on cars by implementing measures used successfully in London?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Debts That Cannot Be Paid Won’t Be
R. C. J. Cranstoun spoke with Michael Hudson on debt, rentierism, and the geopolitical rift around sanctions, energy, and the dollar system
Read more...‘This Is Oligarchy’: Nearly 100 Billionaires Are Funding Susan Collins’ Reelection Bid
My goodness, why are so many billionaires, the overwhelming majority of whom do not vote in Maine, so eager to see Graham Platner lose?
Read more...New Consumer Report Finds “Concerning Levels of Additives” in Popular Snacks
Quelle surprise! Junk food often contains a lot of less-than-healthy additives.
Read more...Lawsuit Puts Spotlight on Amazon’s Free Speech Violations, Use of Contractors to Facilitate Abuses Like Wage Theft
Amazon is engaged in a tooth and nail fight to beat a New York City bill to end its use of contractors to escape liability for labor abuses.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Geopathology and the Econopathology Behind it
How pervasive behavioral disorders among what passes for elites are destructive not just to the social order but ultimately to them too.
Read more...The Roots of the U.S.-Russia Rivalry
A deep dive into the history of US-Russia relations.
Read more...Coffee Break: Theology at Work in the World, Eugenics Is Still Undead, Science Is Still Under Attack, and Ultra-Processed Foods in the Dock
Part the First: Pope Leo XIV and the Larger World. Of the academic historians currently writing for both their colleagues and students and the general reader, Greg Grandin is among the finest. In The Education of Pope Leo XIV he places the former Father Bob Prevost and current Pope Leo XIV in context of our […]
Read more...Who Needs Bitcoin & Cryptos (-50%) Amid the Semiconductor & Miracle IPO Mania?
Are bitcoin and crypto, followed by semiconductors and AI, proving Mark Twain right, that manias don’t repeat but they rhyme?
Read more...Fox News Defines Most Americans as Anti-American
Fox News brands the majority of Americans as official enemies, echoing extra-legal ““domestic terrorism organizations” in Trump’s NSPM-7.
Read more...A Peptide, a Secretive Scientist, and a Debate Over Evidence
RFK, Jr. is backing a peptide out of Zagreb, BPC-157, which has lots of fans and very little evidence. What could go wrong?
Read more...