A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar
An in-depth discussion of financial capitalism versus earlier models and the Chinese and Russian approach, with a focus on the role of rent.
Read more...An in-depth discussion of financial capitalism versus earlier models and the Chinese and Russian approach, with a focus on the role of rent.
Read more...Michael Hudson discusses the chokehold of pro-finance, pro-rentier capitalism reaching into the present COVID-19 crisis.
Read more...Fiscal multipliers, an economic concept often misused to justify austerity, is rearing its head in Beltway budget debates. Time to bone up.
Read more...Ursula Burns, a candidate for Commerce Secretary, is a director of Nestlé, which defended its use of child labor before the Supreme Court.
Read more...Why for some sectors of the economy, life after Covid may never be the same.
Read more...Regulators and officials are dusting off antitrust rule books to go after tech monopolists.
Read more...How much apartment building debt is there, and who holds it?
Read more...A new Supreme Court ruling upholds the ability of states to regulate pharmacy benefit managers.
Read more...Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Read more...How political considerations are getting in the way of science-based policy, as in not unduly tainted by commerce, special interests, or fashion.
Read more...The US can draw on its Gilded Age to bring its billionaires to heel.
Read more...Another nail in the trickle down economics coffin. Too bad that vampire-like, it keeps coming back.
Read more...Airlines are back at the trough while more and more Americans go hungry.
Read more...Some musings about late-stage capitalism and what it might take to fix it.
Read more...Vaccine profiteering is very much with us, even during a pandemic.
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