“Build Back Better” Needs an Agenda for Upward Mobility
Why Biden’s “Build Back Better” could make a big difference for what was once the American middle class….charitably assuming he meant it.
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Michael Hudson: Looking Forward to 2021
Micheal Hudson gives a sobering 2021 forecast.
Read more...2021: Year of Living Dangerously?
Does the West recognize how many emerging economies are dangerously close to breaking points? Can they control their bad neoliberal reflexes?
Read more...2021 Will Be Volatile
Richard Murphy’s 2021 forecast.
Read more...Critics Warn Repeal of Section 230 ‘Would Be Devastating for Human Rights, Social Movements, and Marginalized People’
No, Section 230 is not about Facebook. It protects you from liabilty if you forward an e-mail, so you should think twice about a repeal.
Read more...A Hard Look at Rent and Rent Seeking with Michael Hudson & Pepe Escobar
An in-depth discussion of financial capitalism versus earlier models and the Chinese and Russian approach, with a focus on the role of rent.
Read more...Polarization, Then a Crash: Michael Hudson on the Rentier Economy
Michael Hudson discusses the chokehold of pro-finance, pro-rentier capitalism reaching into the present COVID-19 crisis.
Read more...DoJ Launches Nationwide Lawsuit Against Walmart for Opioids Violations
Feds file civil charges against Walmart for opioids violations – eschewing criminal corporate charges even for obvious drug pushing.
Read more...Analysis: Some Said the Vaccine Rollout Would Be a ‘Nightmare.’ They Were Right.
COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been deficient and disorganized, suffering from flaws that plague the U.S. for-profit health care system.
Read more...Larry Summers’ Opposition to $2000 Covid Payments Confirms Our Classic: “Why Larry Summers Should Not Be Permitted to Run Anything More Important than a Dog Pound”
Larry Summers is at it again.
Read more...Why Are Shootings Up in New York City? We Asked Four People on the Front Lines
“Becaue Covid” may not fully explain the rise in shootings in New York and other big cities.
Read more...Someone Should Ask Biden Cabinet Candidate Ursula Burns If She Supports Child Labor in Africa
Ursula Burns, a candidate for Commerce Secretary, is a director of Nestlé, which defended its use of child labor before the Supreme Court.
Read more...New Hope for Coral Restoration with “Electric Reefs”?
Can we mobilize to restore coral reefs using “mineral accretion technology” to mobilize, now that patents no longer restrict its use?
Read more...Why We Need to Adopt Friedrich Engels’ Thinking on Science in These Times
Friedrich Engels work on working class included describing how capitalists would not contrain their environmental damage.
Read more...Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?
The US can draw on its Gilded Age to bring its billionaires to heel.
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