Life’s a Pitch
Another sign of economic insecurity: the pitch economy, where competition becomes more and more degrading.
Read more...Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents
Trump and the Infrastructure of Fascism
How Trump’s infrastructure plan is a thinly-disguised privatization and deregulation scam.
Read more...How to Use Fiscal and Monetary Policy to Make Us Rich Again
On the obvious and high cost of abandoning fiscal policy in favor of monetary policy…save for asset owners.
Read more...After Neoliberalism, What Next?
The neoliberal order has failed and is creating more and more political and social upheaval. Some elements of a new system may be in sight.
Read more...Why Public Company Ownership Is Irrelevant to Monopolies
Why the argument that public company ownership contributes to monopoly power is wrong-headed.
Read more...Ilargi: Negative Interest Rates – Rogoff Cribs from Orwell and Kafka
The war on cash, to enable central banks to implement negative interest rates on ordinary citizens, continues.
Read more...Neoliberalism Booster New York Times Egregiously Misrepresents French Labor Laws
The New York Times’ latest dubious achievement: how many lies it managed to tell in a single story about French labor laws.
Read more...“The Changing of the Guard:” The Prescient 1980 Book That Foretold the Democrat Love Affair With Neoliberalism
How up and coming Democrats in the 1970s and 1980s decided being wannabe Republicans was a path to power.
Read more...Facebook Now Out to Squish Even Newbie Potential Competitors
The Wall Street Journal gives a case study on how Facebook hounds even small fry competitors.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Deigns to Notice Costly Indiana Toll Road Failure, Depicts It as Isolated When Toll Roads “Consistently” Go Bust
Toll road projects have consistently failed over the last decade and a half, but you never hear that in the mainstream press.
Read more...Nurses: Paul Krugman Gives ‘Shallow Political Advice’ On Health Care Reform
While the National Nurses Union back national health care, they are cautiously calling only for Medicare for All, not a more robust system.
Read more...Trump as “Consequence, Not Cause” of the Collapse in the Post Cold War Consensus
How press and pundit fixation on Trump diverts public attention from power structures that work against ordinary Americans.
Read more...Democrats Pushing the “Compete” Word to Justify Doubling Down on Failed, Middle-Class Destroying Neoliberal Policies
Democrats are now telling voters they only need to compete better…and offer policies that have repeatedly failed to “help”.
Read more...Yes Men Target “Better Deal” #DNCTakeBack Scam
The DNC’s Better Deal scam is barely out of the box and the Yes Men are already making fun of it.
Read more...Austerity in One Country: The Case of Britain
A devastating review of the recent history of austerity in the UK.
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