US Looks to Escalate Its Economic War Against the World’s Poorest By Taxing Remittance Payments
Paradoxically, this is likely to create more, not less, illegal immigration to the US.
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Book Review: A Skeptical Look at Grand Designs for the Future
A harsh look at schemes for a happy future, at least for billionaires, which ignore their problems and excuse tolerating rot today.
Read more...Weight Loss Drugs Like Ozempic Prove the Sickness at the Heart of the NHS
Most users of GLP-1 agonists like Ozempic need to stay on them long-term to keep pound off. So is medicine promoting an addicition?
Read more...Big Law Deals With Trump Are Backfiring on Top Firms
Major law firms in a storng position to fight Trump diktats about backing conservative interests are paying a price for selling out.
Read more...When Illusions of Wealth Shape the Economy: Understanding Pseudo-Wealth, Macroeconomic Volatility, and Social Welfare
Why pseudo-wealth like crypto is detrimental to social welfare, as in the collective good.
Read more...Abundance vs. Degrowth in a Time of Climate Catastrophe
While Trump’s Liberation Day policies might bring about accidental degrowth, Democrats embrace DOGE-style Abundance. Is there another way?
Read more...Michael Hudson Discusses How Religions Opposed Usury, the Catholic Church “Interest” Rebranding, and More on the Evolution of Financial Rentierism
On the long-standing religious and ethical proscriptions against usury, and how and why the Catholic Church rebranded it as interest.
Read more...Why the Right Fiercely Attacks the US Postal Service: Its Unions
Looking at a big reason why conservatives are so keen to privatize the US Postal Service: to eliminate its unions.
Read more...What The Endgame in Gaza Means For Middle East Security And Oil Prices
Netanyahu plans another aggressive incursion into Gaza, intended as a Final Solution of sorts. Is a retaliatory oil embargo a real risk?
Read more...The Curious Case of the Hostile Takeover Bid by a Bank Facing Criminal Charges
Despite facing prosecution on a number of charges, including widespread corporate espionage, Spain’s BBVA still wants to take over its third biggest rival. The ECB has already given its blessing.
Read more...They Looted Companies — Now They’re Looting the Government
Poor and self-serving corporate oversight practices are going bigger and badder as they are taken to government.
Read more...“How Long Is It Before Reform Implodes?”
Is Reform less formidable than its stunning success in recent local council elections indicates?
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The Sunday Morning Movie Presents: The Night Stalker (1972) Run Time: 1H 14M
In The Night Stalker, a veteran reporter suspects a vampire is behind a series of gruesome murders in Los Vegas.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Catholic Church, the Crusades, and the Origins of International Banking
A wide ranging talk that corrects the record about banking, such as the the Catholic Church, as opposed to Jews, being the prime mover
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