Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents

Is It Climate Change or Genocide?

The case that the elite lack of willingness to address climate change amounts to genocide.

Progressives Sound Alarm as Harris Courts Crypto Industry

“Crypto is a haven for businesspeople with nefarious or criminal intent.”

What Is a “Fair” Drug Price?

Debunking Big Pharma whinging over Inflation Reduction Act drug price negotiations.

The Fed’s Reactive-Looking Half-Point Rate Cut

The Fed’s half point rate reduction was unseemly large. What gives?

Cheapflation and the Rise of Inflation Inequality in 2021-2023

Big companies victimized poor consumers via cheapflation: imposing greater price increases on low price goods than higher priced items

Is US Policy Saving the Dollar or Destroying It?

How the global economy is being restructured, in no small measure due to inept, self-destructive policy moves that undermine dollar use in trade.

Putin Calls for Sanctions Revenge, Threatens to Cap Uranium Exports

Russia is considering restricting commodities exports such as uranium to what it has called “unfriendly” countries.

No Solid Scientific Basis for Degrowth

Two economists depict degrowth studies as analytically weak and advocating political infeasible ideas.

The Myth That the US is Rapidly Approaching Bankruptcy

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff take apart widespread myths about Federal spending and debts.

Where Can We Live? The Homeless Crisis in America

The war on the homeless in the US has entered a very ugly phase.

Is the Labor Market “Normalizing?” What Even Is “Normal?”

Fewer quits and historically low layoffs & discharges mean fewer job openings, and less hiring to fill them. The massive pandemic churn slowed. But that’s only part of it.