Chinese Government Tries to Combat Destructive Deflation. Will It Succeed?
The economic hazard of deflation is already stalking China, to the degree that even Xi is trying to take it on.
Read more...The economic hazard of deflation is already stalking China, to the degree that even Xi is trying to take it on.
Read more...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 […]
Read more...To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx.
Read more...As cooperation in the killing fields of Gaza continues, the genocidal ideology comes home. What is the way out of this madness?
Read more...How the financialization of housing destroys the societal fabric and why we need to make housing public infrastructure—like schools or libraries.
Read more...How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China (and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.
Read more...Struggling Del Monte Foods keeled over due to its exposure to steel and aluminum cost increases from ‘Trump’s tariffs.
Read more...On top of the leverage bombs in the US and other financial systems, the embrace of crypto, specifically stablecoins, is another systemic risk
Read more...Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is upping the ante in the AI business, triggering a bidding war for talent and he’s willing to poach from competitors.
Read more...As Mr. Market idelivers a big raspberry in response to Trump’s big beautiful bill, remember it won’t affect the ability to keep spending
Read more...Tackling a pro-multinational development canard which looks to have made the so-called middle income trap worse.
Read more...It is a sad sign of the extent of libertarian propaganda that an apple-pie-and-motherhood issue like the rule of law needs defending.
Read more...It seems no idea is too stupid not to get a following. This one is to recreate Silicon Valley Bank, a standout failure.
Read more...More on how young men are having a hard time finding dates and romantic partners, and why this matters.
Read more...Probably not in their current form, but there’s a counterintuitive argument that we should be cheering for the Supreme Court to dismantle the National Labor Relations Board in order to revitalize labor.
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