Contemporary Capitalism: Neoliberal Capitalism, Financialized Capitalism, or Globalized Capitalism?
Why “neoliberal” is the framework that best describes our new, post 1980 form of capitalism.
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Frances Coppola: Rethinking Government Debt and Monetary Sovereignity
Debunking the uniformed and regularly hysterical mainstream treatment of government debt and deficits.
Read more...CalSTRS, Maryland Fund Private Equity Players Seeking Profits in the Refugee Crisis
Private-equity-backed providers undercut charities in providing refugee services. It’s not hard to imagine how the results are coming in.
Read more...Why You Should Care About CalPERS’ Staff’s and Board’s Incompetence in Private Equity and What You Can Do About It
Why you need to help CalPERS kick its bad private equity habits.
Read more...Chris Hedges and Leo Panitch: We are All Greeks Now
Leo Panitch and Chris Hedges discuss how nature of imperialism today is financial power.
Read more...Second Circuit Rules That Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Protections Protect … Whistleblowers
the second circuit rules that under Dodd-Frank whistleblowers are… whistleblowers even if they don’t dot the i and cross the t.
Read more...Lehman Anniversary: A Reminder That the SEC Needs Someone a Lot Better Than Mary Jo White as Chairman
It is time for Mary Jo White to go.
Read more...Corbynomics 101: A Guide to People’s QE (PQE)
Why the three big charges commonly made against Corbyn’s “People’s Quantitative Easing” or PQE, are all wet.
Read more...John Helmer: MH17 – Dutch Prepare Missile Attack on Moscow
The Dutch Government has decided to launch a missile attack on Moscow in October. By suppressing all evidence obtained from the bodies of victims of the crash of Malaysian Airlines MH17, officials of the Dutch Safety Board and associated Dutch military officers, police and prosecutors are preparing to release a report on the crash with a gaping hole in its veracity.
Read more...MMN Event This Monday: Politics, Corruption, and Campaign Finance
The Modern Money Network presents Politics, Corruption, and Campaign Finance: Electoral Machines as part of its “Money” seminar series. WHEN Monday, September 14, 12:00 PM EDT. WHERE William and June Warren (“Big Warren”) Hall, Room L-107 (Basement), Columbia University between 115th Street and 116th Street on Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY. See map for details. […]
Read more...Credit Rating Agencies and Brazil: S&P as Neoliberal Enforcer
Mind you, the rating agencies are far from the only neoliberal enforcers as far as emerging economies are concerned. But it is nevertheless instructive to compare an official rationale with data.
Read more...Garrisoning the Globe, How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Undermine National Security and Harm Us All
How military bases cement US power.
Read more...Corbyn: The Day After
Corbyn’s victory, the press, the Overton Window, the party, and the future.
Read more...Bill Black: Now the Justice Department Admits They Got it Wrong
By issuing its new memorandum the Justice Department is tacitly admitting that its experiment in refusing to prosecute the senior bankers that led the fraud epidemics that caused our economic crisis failed.
Read more...Crane Brinton on Revolution
Some extracts from Crane Brinton’s Anatomy of Revolution, considered.
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