Pandemics and Inequality: A Historical Overview
The record of pandemics past shows that only devastating mortality rates reduce inequality.
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Why the George Floyd Protests Succeeded Where Others Failed
Looking at what the George Floyd and later Black Lives Matter protests over the summer did right.
Read more...Corporate Law Consequences: Amy Coney Barrett Nomination
Quick take on what the Amy Coney Barrett appointment means for various areas of corporate law and why Republicans are so keen to confirm her.
Read more...Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth: How Deep Will the Depression Get?
Rana Roroohar and Mark Blyth discuss the elections, tech, China, and Covid v. recovery with Paul Jay.
Read more...Burning Injustice: Why the California Wildfires Are a Class Crisis
The rich paid for protection from wildfires while the poor burned. A harbinger of the class divide in coming climate disasters?
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: How Progressives Could Still Win the 21st Century
Could progressives obtain power through a Progressive International movement?
Read more...Trump Shoots His Campaign in the Head
Trump is back to his usual self-destructive form.
Read more...Chamber of Commerce Quietly Supports a United Government Led by Democrats
The Chamber of Commerce cozying up to Team Dem is quite a bellweather.
Read more...Covid-19 and the Global Addiction to Cheap Migrant Labor
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the world’s structural dependence on exploitable labor.
Read more...Thomas Frank’s Essential Insight – True Populism Is Transracial: An Interview + Review of The People, No! A Brief History of Anti-Populism
How Jim Crow laws were a backlash against 19th Century populism of having poor whites and blacks join forces to seek economic justice.
Read more...Pandemics and Inequality
Pandemics have a long tail, including their impact on inequality.
Read more...Macro N Cheese – Debt Deflation and the Neofeudal Empire with Michael Hudson
Another tour de force by Michael Hudson, this one stressing the role of unproductive real estate in modern debt bondage and Trump’s MMT.
Read more...How Three Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts
Some past pandemics ushered in massive changes….but only with massive death levels. So can the powers that be rest easy with Covid?
Read more...Why Americans Need Debt Jubilees, Helicopter Money, and 21st-Century Greenbacks: A 45-minute Conversation with Richard Vague
Richard Vague, who has studied financial crises, has honed in on the destructive impact of private debt and the need for debt jubilees.
Read more...Election Violence in November? Here’s What the Research Says
Why worries about violence and worse, fascism come the fall are largely suburban pearl-clutching as opposed to well-founded fears.
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