FTX is an even bigger mess than someone with a creative streak might have imagined.
Read more...A small illustration of why some of the stories about reducing dollar dependence are misguided.
Read more...Why, if you aren’t in crypto, you can watch the meltdown in comparative comfort.
Read more...Another account of the extent of the private equity health care grifting, as well as some avenues to check these abuses.
Read more...Democrats help the gig economy expands its reach as it brings pain and suffering to more American workers.
Read more...In the unlikely event you have any doubt, Sam Bankman-Fried and his merry band of FTX rogues look mighty dishonest.
Read more...Richard Kozul-Wright describes the current world economic disorder, and discusses possibilities and limits of effective regional responses
Read more...The more you look at the G7 Russian oil price scheme, the worse it appears.
Read more...The US gets out of bed to go after some illegal foreign trade subsidies. Sadly this sort of thing does not happen very often.
Read more...Rising housing and medical costs meet fixed incomes to push older peope into desperation and homelessness.
Read more...Michael Hudson explains how financial capitalism won the struggle with industrial capitalism and gave rentiers the upper hand.
Read more...Taxpayers foot the bill for medical research, but drug companies profit. We need a new R&D model to stop this rentierism.
Read more...Many countries see the Russia challenge to Western economic dominance as an opportunity to rewrite the rules of global trade in their favor.
Read more...Another tour de force with Michael Hudson, covering development, rentierism, economic narratives, debt dynamics, and the rise of China.
Read more...Lula wins by a whisker, but the Bolsonao Christian Right remains a powerful threat.
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