Money and Banking – Financial Crises
The mechanics of financial crises and how an economy gets there.
Read more...Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents
A Global Marshall Plan for Joblessness?
Time for a Marshall Plan for unemployment: no workfare, no bullshit jobs, no compulsory work, no digging holes. Start with a Green New Deal.
Read more...Tax-Dodging Corporate Inversions Accelerating
New rules by the US Treasury to curb corporate inversions haven’t done enough to slow the rising tide.
Read more...Clinton Policies Have Hurt Women
Clinton preaches trickle-down feminism, which just like trickle-down economics, serves only the interests of those at the top of the food chain.
Read more...Democrat Hedge Fund Investors Underwrite Political Networks to Privatize K-12 Public Education
Who says Democrats and Wall Street don’t get along? Hedge funds promote a war on teachers’ unions to boost school privatizations.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Warning to Europe – How the TTIP Threatens Public Health Care and Pensions
Why the TTIP poses a wide-ranging threat to European health and pension policies.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Corporate Convention: “Comcast Presents … The Democratic Party. Welcome to Philadelphia.”
The Democratic party convention will put its big-money soul on tawdry display.
Read more...The Minimum Wage Increases = Job Loss Myth
Repeat after me: study after study shows that minimum wages increases don’t lead to job losses.
Read more...Noam Chomsky: American Power Under Pressure
Seeing states as the vehicle for projecting power is dated, particularly as far as understanding America’s position is concerned.
Read more...Our Awful Elites Gutted America. Now They Dare Ring Alarms About Trump, Sanders—And Cast Themselves as Saviors
An awesome rant on the elite hyperventilating about Trump. He’s not something new, he’s simply the end-game of policies they knowingly set in motion.
Read more...Naked Capitalism’s Diptherio Discusses Flaws in Unemployment Reporting
Lies, damned lies, and statistics, unemployment report style.
Read more...TTIP: We Were Right All Along
The European Commission’s claim that the TTIP is aimed at ‘help[ing] people and businesses large and small” is shown to be a flagrant falsehood.
Read more...“John Doe’s Manifesto”: Panama Papers Source Blasts Lack of Media Interest, Calls for Prosecutions, Whistleblower Protection
Martha r flagged a new story at Suddeusche Zeitung from “John Doe,” the source for the Mossack Fonseca revelations, on what he intended to accomplish and what he feels needs to be done. I’m posting on his manifesto to encourage you to read it in full and circulate it. The whistleblower, John Doe, states his […]
Read more...Lessons from Iceland, Where Offshore Created an Onshore Bubble Free of Rules and Regulations
In Iceland, the rapid growth of offshore, meaning tax evasion, along with harmful, even criminal, practices produced a massive boom and bust.
Read more...“Free Trade” in Trouble in the United States
“Free trade” policies, in a world of substantially liberalized trade, no longer elicit knee-jerk support. About time.
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