Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents

A Neoliberalism Meets Covid Vignette: Barriers to Getting a Vaccine, Publix Edition

We had to jump through way too many hoops to get a Covid vaccine at Publix. Is this normal for pharmacies?

Michael Hudson: Why Biden Won’t Cancel Student Debt

Michael Hudson gives a hard look at the typical excuses for not cancelling student debt and finds them wanting.

Crypto Crackdown: Only the Beginning?

If you think the officialdom is getting tough with crypto, there’s even more they can do to tighten the screws.

Slack in the Economy, Not Inflation, Should Be Bigger Worry

Despite fear-mongering about inflation, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand.

An Indictment of US Covid Policy

How US Covid policy is producing far more deaths and disability here and around the world than necessary.

Put People Before Profits for Covid Progress

More discussion of Covid vaccine, testing and treatment apartheid, thanks to private sector profiteering.

Biden Administration/CDC “Mission Accomplished” Mask Reversal: Hubris? Incompetence? Toadying to Business?

Why the policy-making part of the CDC should be burned to the ground: it’s highly politicized yet not very good at politics.

Costco Is Mean to the Disabled and Elderly

Costco is not nice.

Bill Black: The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One (Part 1/9)

Bill Black traces the history of modern American financial fraud starting in this episode with the S&L Banking scandal.

Revealed: Big Pharma’s Plot to Derail US Covid-19 Vaccine Waiver

Confidential documents expose the pharmaceutical lobby’s attempts to recruit lawmakers for anti-TRIPS vaccine waiver effort.

Book Review: A Ground-Level Look at America’s Health Care System

In “The Hospital,” Brian Alexander chronicles the struggle to provide adequate health care in small-town America during Covid.

Why Biden’s Carbon Pricing and Electric Vehicle Plans Won’t Avert Climate Crisis

Unfortunately, central Biden Administration climate change policies, like carbon taxes/pricing, fall well short of the level of action needed

Sputtering About Crypto and the US Pipeline Ransomware Attack

You can hear the silence about the role of crypto in the Colonial Pipeline and a growing spate of ransom demands.

Michael Hudson on American as Absentee Landlord on The Greyzone: Biden Administration, New Cold War, Super Imperialism, Dollar Weaponization

Michael Hudson discusses geopolitics including currency power plays, global institutions like the IMF, the new Cold War, and Bill Gates