Michael Hudson on Coronavirus and Debt Winners and Losers
Michael Hudson explains why debt cancellation and turning banks into utilities is the only sound response to the cornacrisis.
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The Pandemic Shows the Importance of Funding Early Childcare and Education Infrastructure (Updated)
Why investment in childcare and education provides high returns yet has been largely ignored in Covid-19 responses.
Read more...Pandemic-Emptied Hotels Could Become Affordable Housing, City Officials Suggest
Potentially thousands of vacant hotel rooms in New York City alone are ripe for conversion into permanent residences, deputy mayor, housing groups and hotel owners agree.
Read more...The Best Law Capital Can Buy
A review of the important new book “The Code of Capital: How the law creates wealth and inequality.”
Read more...America Sits on Its Hands as Covid-19 Cases Rise
More signs of Covid-19 breakdown.
Read more...Can the Aspen Institute’s Elite Economists Beat the Coronavirus Depression?
A careful look at a new set of rescue schemes devised by some Serious Economists. Honestly, even Larry Summers could do better than this.
Read more...How America’s Covid-19 Rescues Look Set to Increase Inequality
Why the Covid-19 bailouts are coming at a high social cost.
Read more...The Police Weren’t Created to ‘Protect and Serve.’ They Were Created to ‘Maintain Order.’ A Brief Look at the History of Police in America
America’s police started out as muscle deployed against labor organizers.
Read more...Meritocracy Legitimizes, Deepens Inequality
Why meritocracy ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.
Read more...Reviving the Economy, Creating the ‘New Normal’
Covid-19 rescues will reshape the economy, as we see in the US, with fat cats getting fatter. Will other countires make sounder choices?
Read more...Automation, Globalisation, and Vanishing Jobs
A new take on how automation and offshoring affect employment.
Read more...How the Disappearance of Union Jobs Obliterated an Emergent Black Middle Class
How union support boosted black economic and social progress.
Read more...Julian Assange Just Called. To Talk About the Pandemic’s Effect on Capitalism & Politics!
Yanis Varoufakis briefs Assange on the devolution of capitailsm.
Read more...Unsung Heroines: Who Cares for the Carers?
Even before COVID-19, the world was facing a care crisis, a problem that is only worsening.
Read more...Pushed by National Uprising, Democratic Lawmakers Unveil Legislation to Overhaul Policing
Democrats introduce comprehensive policing reform legislation , but without Republican support, the best possible scenario is some repetition of the stimulus mess.
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