Category Archives: Guest Post
How Wall Street Enabled the Fracking ‘Revolution’ That’s Losing Shale Oil Companies Billions
Fracking harms the environment and shale oil companies fail to turn a profit but that doesn’t stop Wall Street from lending them huge sums of money, driven by lust for fees.
Read more...Gimme Shelter Q1 2018 Update: Rents and House Prices All at or Near New Extremes
Why buying a house looks to be a better deal than renting, even at today’s nosebleed prices.
Read more...How Bill Cosby, Obama and Mega-Preachers Sold Economic Snake Oil to Black America
How neoliberal ideas infected black politics.
Read more...Links 5/4/18
Gaius Publius: Setting a Perjury Trap for Trump
Is Mueller engaging in prosecutorial overreach in the form of trying to set a perjury trap for Trump?
Read more...Congress Offers Bipartisan Blank Warmaking Check to Donald Trump
Major Danny Sjursen chronicles the sorry history of Congress ceding its check on war-making powers.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/3/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: DCCC delenda est, midterms, the press and the spies, norms, productivity, factory orders, Elon Musk, portable nukes, mesh networks, the workplace
Read more...The Real Driver of Rising Inequality
Wage suppression—not monopoly power—is fueling corporate profits and the relentless rise in inequality.
Read more...The Revenge Against the Commons
Why France’s biggest police operation since May 1968 is prepared to kill for Macron to roust a 4000 acre commons.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 5/2/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Jobs Gaurantee, Pelosi, May primaries, Fletcher v. Moser, employment, lost bank data, Apple results, Elon Musk, loneliness, Arizona teachers, Jupyter
Read more...China’s Bid To Assist Assad In Syrian Reconstruction Is About Security and Profit
China sees a nation-building opportunity in Syria that the US won’t consider.
Read more...Why Capitalism Creates Racism
Why separating racism from capitalist exploitation of low-wage workers isn’t as tidy as the Democratic Party would have you believe.
Read more...The US Teachers Strike in Historical Perspective
Past strike waves offer clues to the possible regeneration of the American labor movement.
Read more...Michael Hudson: “Creating Wealth” Through Debt: The West’s Finance-Capitalist Road
Why debt is the great threat to modern China’s development.
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