Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents

Republicans Scheming to Preserve Trump Tariffs Even After They Create Fewer Manufacturing Jobs

Trump and his GOP allies still heart tariffs despite failures, such as 2025 net manufacturing job growth ofless than half the year before.

Ruling for the Rich: Evidence of a Pro-Wealthy Bias on the US Supreme Court

Quelle surprise! The Supreme Court hearts the rich!

Trump Doubling Down on Tariffs After SCOTUS Nixing Sweeping “Emergency” Abuse: Bad for Businesses, Economy, and Trump

The Trump tariffs mess in the wake of his 6-3 Supreme Court loss on his misuse of “emergency” authority is even worse than you might imagine.

Rob Urie: No Exit – How Obama’s Bank Bailouts Produced Trump

Profiling the Democratic Party’s doom loop, starting with the Obama “get out of jail free” cards to financiers after the crisis.

Michael Hudson: Destiny of Civilization – Financialization & Collapse

Michael Hudson explains how industrial capitalism was radical in aiming to free economies and markets from rent-seeking and financialization.

Iran Crisis Exposes the Impotence of America’s Neoliberal War Machine

How the porky US military machine is also stretched thin, and what that implies for an Iran conflict.

Would Raising Taxes on the Richest New Yorkers Drive Them Away?

What might happen if New York City Mayor Mamdani delivers on increasing income and corporate taxes to the next level?

Twin Cities Unions Planning ‘Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years’ as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis

Renters in Minnesota who’ve been afraid to go to work due to ICE thuggery and allies in labor plan a historic rent strike

One Affordability Battle After Another: What To Do About the AI-Fossil Fuel Industrial Complex

Voters rebel against AI data centers’ electricity costs and fossil fuel pollution, water use, and job loss damage.

Bloomberg’s $108 Oil as Worst Case Iran War Scenario: Too Optimistic?

A detailed Bloomberg report lays out different scenarios for oil prices if Iran attacks. Is its forecast of a worst case of $108 a barrel too cheery?

The Finance Curse Is Killing Britain

A well-warranted harsh look at the high cost an overly-large and ever-more-extractive finance sector imposes on society as a whole.

‘This Is Your Money’: Trump Assault on CFPB Has Cost Consumers $19 Billion

The affordability crisis includes the cost of being cheated, which due to the weakening of the CFPB alone is a handsome sum.

Q&A: Tech Billionaires’ AI Space Empire Fantasies Are ‘An Insidious Form of Climate Denial’

Science journalist Adam Becker dissects offensively crazy tech billionaires’ schemes that greenwash their planetary looting.