Webinar with Michael Hudson: A 4000-Year Perspective on Economy, Money and Debt
Michael Hudson gives a long historical account of the role of debt and money as a tool for promoting prosperity and political dominance.
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Clarification of Spending/Inflation Constraints According to Modern Monetary Theory
Economists go on tilt with the supposed profligate implications of Modern Monetary Theory. But there are many ways to check demand.
Read more...So Much For May Day
On the peculiar decline of May Day.
Read more...Why Workers Memorial Day Is a National Call to Action
On the odd decision by American labor unions to have their own solidarity day, the Workers Memorial Day, rather than participate in May Day.
Read more...Even Credentialed Young People Pessimistic About Their Futures
The fact that even well-placed young people are insecure and pessimistic is further proof of the impact of inequality and rentierism.
Read more...The Corporate Food Takeover
Corporate ownership in many sectors of food production has risen and is set to increase further. Another rentier program well underway.
Read more...The COVID-19 Catastrophe in India Keeps Growing
The Covid nightmare in India won’t end soon. Yet the West, despite self-interested reasons for reducing the contagion, is standing pat.
Read more...From an Un-Caring Economy to a Caring Economy: The Tax Justice Network Podcast, April 2021
“Caring economy” sounds awfully soft and fuzzy. However, it may finally be time to reject utlitarian views of how we organize our resources.
Read more...Money Alone Can’t Fix Central America – or Stop Migration to US
The US has played a big role in creating near or actual failed states in Central America. Are we capable of improving conditions?
Read more...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.
Read more...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
Read more...Welcome to the Age of Hysteria
Hysteria was removed from the DSM as a disorder in the 1980s, apparenlty making it safe as the business model of the neoliberal age.
Read more...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.
Read more...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?
Read more...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.”
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