Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents

Hayek’s Bastards and the Rise of Neoliberalism

The Neoliberal turn of late capitalism [1] rules our world.  Quinn Slobodian has become the voice of our time in explaining how this has happened and why.  In Globalists The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2020), he described, among other things, how the Liberals of Central Europe who became Neoliberals were most […]

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What Does the US’ Increasing Emulation of Israel Augur for the Country’s Future?

As cooperation in the killing fields of Gaza continues, the genocidal ideology comes home. What is the way out of this madness?  

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That $20 Dress Direct from China Now Costs $30 After Trump Closed a Tariff Loophole – and the US Will Soon End the ‘De Minimis’ Exemption for the Rest of the World, too

How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China (and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.

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