Food Inflation: The Price Spikes of Beef, Coffee, Eggs, and Dairy
CPI for food at home has surged by 30% since January 2020.
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Economic Questions: The E F Schumacher Question
E F Schumacher of Small Is Beautiful, appeared influential in his heyday, yet his precepts seem not to have gotten a durable following. Why?
Read more...Rob Urie: Democrats Who Created the Bad Status Quo Won’t Become Saviors
The Democrats as a and even the reason US policies are so contrary to the interests of most of the public.
Read more...The American Augean Stables — How Corruption Has Amended the Constitution
The U.S. shadow government is not a big fan of democracy.
Read more...Putting a Pause on the Practice of Surrogacy
Surrogacy’s health risks raise ethical issues over whether the practice is exploitative and should be banned.
Read more...‘We’re Not Going to Forget’: Pritzker Warns Trump Enforcers Miller, Homan, Bovino That Immunity Not Forever
Governor Pritzker has gotten out of bed to threaten Team Trump over ICE abuses. But this still amounts to a wet noodle lashing.
Read more...Data Centers Spark Bipartisan Fury As Energy Costs Soar
Voters are waking up to the fact that their soaring electricity costs represent a big subsidy to data centers. What happens next?
Read more...Economic Myths: Homo Economicus
Richard Murphy is starting to take part bad economic idea. This series may wind up having no ending.
Read more...Farmers Fight Federal Efforts to Block States from Promoting Humane Animal Agriculture
Federal legislation is pending as part of a Big Ag effort to combat states requiring more humane animal farming methods.
Read more...Waiting for the Wheels to Come Off as Jamie Dimon, the IMF and Bank of England Warn of Damage of an AI Bubble Burst
A look at the increasingly expected AI bubble implosion and what the impact might be.
Read more...A Front Line Report of AI Damage to the Job Market
Informative, if also distressing, detail on the havoc AI is wreaking on the job market, particulary for the young.
Read more...TINA Never Die: Is Taxing the Rich Unthinkable Forever?
Establishment Democrats and Donald Trump both agree there is no alternative to the relentless upward mobility of wealth, is there any hope of change?
Read more...US Workers Experience Large Month-to-Month Fluctuations in Pay
Yet another indiginity low-wage workers suffer: uncertainty in pay due to employers not giving them steady hours.
Read more...The J K Galbraith Question: The Tyranny of Private Consumption
Can advanced economies free themselves of the pathology that John Kenneth Galbraith warned about, of excessive consumption?
Read more...Exploring the High Rates of Social Violence in the Americas
For decades, the Americas have been the most violent part of the world outside active war zones. Solutions remain difficult to achieve
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