Category Archives: Guest Post
Letter to SEC: How Stock Buybacks Undermine Investment in Innovation for the Sake of Stock-Price Manipulation
A comment on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rule “Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization”, aka stock buybacks.
Read more...No One Will Win in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Gail Tverberg argues that the war in Ukraine does not get Russia or other energy producers out of their scarity bind.
Read more...Housing Is a Human Right—Here’s How to Make It a Reality
e federal government has enables the private market to profit from housing. Time for a public option for housing?
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Read more...Colonial Taxes Built Britain. That Must Be Taught in Lessons on Empire
UK government ministers want the British Empire benefits to be taught in schools. Don’t let them ignore the death and destruction it inflicted
Read more...Spanish Government Reaps Whirlwind After Antagonizing Its Biggest Natural Gas Supplier
Alienating your most important natural gas provider is hardly a good idea even at the best of times. And right now, with the world facing its biggest energy crisis in at least half a century, is certainly not the best of times.
Read more...Joe Lauria Interviews Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff on Consortium News
Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss how the economic and ground war over Ukraine is moving geopolitical tectonic plates.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 3/31/2022
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Read more...Russia’s War Against Ukraine Might Persistently Shift Global Supply Chains
Economists are begining to grapple with the question of how the Russia-Ukraine war will reshape supply chains.
Read more...Links 3/31/2022
‘Their Inflation Strategy Is Working’: Corporate Profits Soared to Record High in 2021
“CEOs can’t stop bragging on corporate earnings calls about jacking up prices on consumers to keep their profits soaring,” said one expert.
Read more...The IMF Connection with the Ukraine Crisis
You can’t quite say the IMF is the root of all evil. But it sure made a lot of bad situations worse.
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