From Territorial to Functional Sovereignty: The Case of Amazon
How digital platform operators like Amazon are undermining democracy.
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Selling Out Argentina’s Future—Again
How Argentina’s new neoliberal masters are driving the economy back into its old debt crisis ditch.
Read more...Amar Bhide: The Case for Traditional Banking
Amar Bhide gives a clearly-written, compelling argument against a supposed banking “innovation,” securitization.
Read more...Why Are Profit-Making Factories Closing Across England?
The curious case of England’s closing factories shows the need for industrial strategy to counter rampant short-termism.
Read more...Net Neutrality: The Congressional Review Act, Supportive Constituencies (and Injunctions)
The tiered Internet, a head count for the CRA, and the constituencies that the abolition of net neutrality will harm (including knitters)
Read more...Wolf Richter: Momentous Change in US Natural Gas, with Global Impact
Even China is Buying U.S. LNG
Read more...Mexico’s Standing Rock? Sempra, TransCanada Face Indigenous Pipeline Resistance South of Border
Mexico is now facing its own Standing Rock-like moment as the Yaqui Tribe challenges Sempra Energy’s Agua Prieta pipeline between Arizona and the Mexican state of Senora.
Read more...Why Inequality Predicts Homicide Rates Better Than Any Other Variable
Why increases in inequality lead to increases in the rate of homicide.
Read more...J. D. Alt: The New Poverty
“Community subsistence” as a way to address poverty on a broad-scale basis.
Read more...What Sounds Better To You – Guaranteed Basic Income Or Federal Job Guarantee?
Even though a basic income sounds appealing, a job guarantee will do more to restructure power relations in society.
Read more...Matt Stoller: “Monopoly is a Form of Lawlessness”
A high-level talk of the ebb and flow of monopoly power over the past century and what to do about them now.
Read more...Crowdfunding Christmas: Time to Boycott It’s a Wonderful Life
How It’s a Wonderful Life sentamentalizes and reinforces the misguided policy idea that money is scarce and a private good.
Read more...Net Neutrality, Technical Solutions: A New, Neutral, Corporate Net, Municipal Broadband, Mesh Networks (and Gamers)
If Google doesn’t come to the rescue, perhaps municipal broadband or “mesh networks” can save net neutrality.
Read more...Financial Stability Regulations: A (Non) Progress Report
A survey of major financial reform initiatives finds they have been insufficient. That’s not an accident.
Read more...Michael Hudson: He Died for Our Debt, Not Our Sins
“Most religious leaders say that Christianity is all about sin, not debt. But actually, the word for sin and debt is the same in almost every language.”
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