Michael Hudson: Socialism, Land and Banking: 2017 Compared to 1917
Why did socialism lose out in the 20th century to rentiers promoting neoliberalism?
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Brexit Was a Cry of Financial Pain and Not the Influence of the Old
A new analysis of why voters decided for or against Brexit.
Read more...Another Disease of Despair: Rise in Hepatitis C Among Opioid Users
A rise in hepatitis C, another public health crisis in the making, shows the high cost of neglecting job creation and social safety nets.
Read more...Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy
The economy game is enormously fun for far too few players and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.
Read more...Trump Administration Picks Bizarre Fight With IMF Over Report Backing Taxing the Rich
The IMF makes a careful case for more redistribution.
Read more...How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
How shareholder value theory and other bad ideas created lousy incentives for corporations’ executives.
Read more...EU Immigration – A Gateway Drug
Citizens have become far more sensitive to the perceived and real costs of immigration. Ignore those concerns and risk losing power.
Read more...Gentrification
Gentrification is less of an accident than you might have been led to believe.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Obama Follows Clinton, Boards the Millionaire Speech Train to Wall Street
Like Bill Clinton before him, ex-President Barack Obama has boarded the Wall Street-financed train to millionaire riches.
Read more...Out of Africa: Why the Migration Wave?
Why are so many risking their lives to flee Africa?
Read more...California Has a System That Punishes the Poor Through Traffic Violations—Civil Rights Groups Are Starting to Change That
Law enforcement for profit in California
Read more...Corporate Contractors: The High End of the Precariat (Updated)
The stressful life of downwardly mobile corporate contractors.
Read more...Bill Black: Is Politico or Third Way More Divorced from Reality?
The Third Way confirms that the Dems care more about beating back the Sanders/pro middle class faction than winning.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Corporate Democrats Have a Vested Interest in Not Listening to Workers
Discusses how Democratic Party serves the professional class and the top 10% and no longer cares about the poor or working class.
Read more...Europe’s Globalists Tackle the Immigration Class War
As immigration becomes a political flash point, even hard core neoliberals like Emmanuel Macron are advocating restrictions.
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