Inflation and Power
Why the Fed’s approach to inflation has the main effect of reducing labor bargaining power, which is seldom the real problem.
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Economic Solutions: How To Go from Financialized Neoliberalism to a Productive, Sustainable Economy
Some concrete proposals for how to slip the yoke of neoliberalism and start building a fairer and more functional economy.
Read more...Net-Zero Targets Face Reality Check
Net-zero is staring to look like a big zero. Not at all good news to those who would like this planet to be hospitable in 100 years.
Read more...EU Farmers’ Protests, Food Security, and the Green New Deal Big Lie by Omission About Livelihoods
How the EU farmers’ protests illustrate the obstacles to climate change containment policies. And Green hopium has made matters worse.
Read more...Rob Urie: Imperialism, Lenin, and US Wars Abroad
Why Lenin was right.
Read more...Neocolonial ISDS, Abused, Biased, Costly, and Grossly Unfair
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions in trade pacts – long abused by opportunists – are slowly being rejected by governments.
Read more...What If We Treated People Who Use Drugs as Full Human Beings?
Does punishing people for substance use worsen the pain and isolation that make drugs so appealing?
Read more...The Real Reason Your Grocery Bill Is Still So High
Big Ag price gouging is driving still elevated grocery store prices. When will that become a political issue?
Read more...CBO and CMS Continue to Overestimate Health Care Cost Increases, Creating Unjustified Pressure to Cut Benefits
The CBO and CMS, keep overestimating health cost increase, and at least for the CBO, it’s due to neoliberal fealty.
Read more...Freedom of Navigation: Houthi Attacks Only Part of How a Historical Anomaly Is Unwinding
Open seas, often touted as freedom of navigation, may be on its way out due to US negligence and technology change.
Read more...A Philosopher Looks at Work in Our Modern World
Thinking more deeply about what work is and how it is changing.
Read more...Our Housing Crisis Is Literally Killing People
A society that refuses to provide safe and secure housing for every single person is a failure.
Read more...Looting of Boeing Set to Continue, Epitomizing Decline of Late-Stage AngloSphere Capitalism
Boeing is in far worse shape than is apparent, even with its quality debacles. And the big reason is the company can lumber on despite that.
Read more...AI Boom Could Slow U.S. Clean Grid Ambitions
AI is projected to consume lots of power. And no one seems to care much that that’s going to increase climate change damage.
Read more...Why Does Russia Produce More Ammunition Than the US?
Russian industrial performance serves as a point of departure for Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson to discuss the shortcomings of capitalism.
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