Slack in the Economy, Not Inflation, Should Be Bigger Worry
Despite fear-mongering about inflation, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand.
Read more...Despite fear-mongering about inflation, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand.
Read more...How US Covid policy is producing far more deaths and disability here and around the world than necessary.
Read more...Continuing the debate about what needs to be done if there is any hope of saving the planet…for something resembling modern society.
Read more...A tally of the limittions of the strict “no excuses” charter school format that bizarrely skips over their intent to weed out students.
Read more...An early stab at a Covid ledger. Not pretty.
Read more...Covid housing for the homeless has been beneficial not just for public health but for many of the individuals in the program.
Read more...A sanity check on how far “let them eat training” will go in restoring the fallen American middle class.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove of the Poor People’s Campaign discuss Biden “reforms” and the (mis)use of religion in economic justice.
Read more...Hiring has become difficult because some McJobs workers won’t risk their health for a crap wage. So the right wants to beat them down.
Read more...The Q&A from a Michael Hudson talk on money, debt, and economic orthodoxy.
Read more...Michael Hudson gives a long historical account of the role of debt and money as a tool for promoting prosperity and political dominance.
Read more...Economists go on tilt with the supposed profligate implications of Modern Monetary Theory. But there are many ways to check demand.
Read more...On the peculiar decline of May Day.
Read more...A hard look at why police reform has failed, and what approaches might work.
Read more...Even for those comfortably ensconced in the US, war-making has been a constant backdrop for all but the oldest Americans.
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