Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents

Privacy Champions Urge Passage of ‘Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale’ Act

Anti-Big-Tech sentiment has hit the point where it’s not crazy to hope for some recovery of digital privacy.

Another False Start in Africa Sold with Gates Foundation Green Revolution Myths

The Gates-Foundation-promoted Green Revolution has proven harmful and also crowded out safer and effective ecological agriculture projects

Michael Hudson: America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism

Further discussion of the American and Chinese economic models, focusing on financialization as a central distinction.

Experts Lay Out Their Case Against Carbon Pricing

Climate change policy advocates have turned against market approcaches like carbon offsets, which have clearly failed. But what next?

Lessons from the First New Deal for the Next One

Whether it is called “Build Back Better” or a Green New Deal, it is imperative to reject the false dichotomy of “jobs against climate.”

UNCTAD’s Richard Kozul-Wright on the Post-COVID World Economy: Out of the Frying Pan… Into the Fire?

Kozul-Wright warns that for a sustainable Covid-19 recovery, it is key to abandon policies that concentrate economic power and wealth

Michael Hudson Asks Our Readers: If Democracy Winds Up Creating Financial Dominance, What Do We Call China?

Michael Hudson seeks reader input on what to call modern governments not run by traditional nobles or financial interests.

Wikipedia’s Deep Ties to Big Tech

Contrary to its image as a cash-strapped, open public service, Wikipedia tries to hide that it is a wealthy NGO with close ties to big tech.

Christian Nationalism Is a Barrier to Mass Vaccination Against COVID-19

Some Christian evangelicals are rejecting Covid vacccines, and some of the current approches to increasing uptake will backfire with them.

Chicago School Economists Got it Wrong. Strong Antitrust Policy Boosts the Economy.

History shows robust antitrust enforcement helps promote a prosperous, fair, and balanced economy.

Will Biden’s Central American Plan Slow Migration (or Speed It Up)?

Biden”s Central America plan includes US funding of domestic security forces to keep citizens put and support foreign economic exploitation.

We Have to Consign the Era of Financial Engineering to History

Financial legerdemain is still very much with us, despite the Big One in 2008 and continuing distortions confirming its high cost.