Economists Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson Explain Multipolarity, Decline of US Hegemony
The new year gets off to a rousing start with the launch of a new bi-weekly talk show with Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson.
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Public Libraries Continue to Thrive Despite Defunding and Privatization Attacks
Efforts by governments and cities to defund the public library are thankully falleing short due to essential role libraries play.
Read more...180 Million Barrels Of Crude May Never Be Returned to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The Biden plan for replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is unrealitic. And it does not appear to have a Plan B.
Read more...Crypto-Focused Silvergate Bank Got De Facto Backdoor FDIC Bailout via $4.3 Billion Federal Home Loan Bank Advance
More crypto chicanery! How crypto-focused bank Silvergate got a very big ticket rescue from a quasii-government mortgage banker’s bank.
Read more...Textbooks Are Falling Behind on Climate Change
A new study found that most biology textbooks devote fewer sentences to climate change than they did before 2010.
Read more...50 Years After Allende at the UN: a Corporate Triumph Named Multistakeholderism
Allende was early to warn of multinational threats to product safety, labor regulations, and other protections. Sadly corporate interests won.
Read more...‘Public Trust’—A Key Legal Tool to Preserve Our Natural Resources
Law professor Mary Wood breaks describes how the public trust can protect rights to clean air, water, and land.
Read more...How Austerity Caused the NHS Crisis
As the NHS crisis intensifies, a look at how the once esteemed service got there.
Read more...The Great Inflation Debate: Supply Shocks and Wealth Effects in a Multipolar World Economy
A new analysis finds our inflation comes first from Covid/sanctions supply shocks and second, spending by the rich, not government spending.
Read more...FTX’s Collapse Mirrors an Infamous 18th Century British Financial Scandal
Perilous little is novel in finance, particularly scams like FTX.
Read more...The 2022 Globie: Money and Empire – Perry Mehrling on Charles Kindleberger
Perry Merhling’s recent book on Charles Kindleberger finds he had prescient beliefs about the need for a prudent international money minder.
Read more...Thomas Frank on How the Feckless Democrats Trashed the American Middle Class
How Democrats abandoned populist economic ideas and whether there is a future for progressivism.
Read more...Russia Says Europe Will Struggle To Replace Its Oil Products
More debate over the impact of Western sanctions on oil price.
Read more...Cal Grad Student Worker Strike Ends With Deal Panned by Many Rank-and-File Union Members
One dissenting student negotiator said the tentative agreement “does not come close to our initial demands and it leaves a lot of our co-workers still rent burdened, still impoverished.”
Read more...Reviewing Healthcare Costs as Driven by Pharma, Hospitals, and Doctors
Decomposing the rise in US healthcare costs. Of course, it’s not much due to more or better care, but higher charges.
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