Van Buren continues his examination of what he calls the “post-Constitutional era”. He focuses on the steady erosion of freedom of speech, particularly in the media, including limits on the ability of journalists to protect sources to more self-censorship and increased antipathy towards reporting that involves the use of confidential material.
Read more...Yves here. As a finance person, I can’t readily relate to the distinction the author makes between money once being seen as something tangible and it now being widely regarded as a mechanism for facilitating commerce. Nevertheless, I believe this post will resonate with many readers and thus I believe it will make for useful grist for discussion.
Read more...Libertarians are profoundly anti-democratic. The folks at Cato that I debate make no bones about their disdain for and fear of democracy. Friedrich von Hayek is so popular among libertarians because of his denial of the legitimacy of democratic government and his claims that it is inherently monstrous and murderous to its own citizens.
Read more...David Cay Johnston is a clear and lively conversationalist, and I anticipate readers will enjoy his discussion of his work over the last 20 years on inequality.
Read more...A new case filed against Deutsche Bank’s wealth management business shows that even money can’t buy safety from predatory finance.
Read more...How the Vietnam War helped usher in neoliberalism, financialization of the economy, and the use of military spending as stealth stimulus.
Read more...Were the results of the European elections a tremor or an earthquake?
Read more...Even if you don’t agree with all of Eckle’s views on reinventing business, his effort to identify and strip away misguided conventional wisdom is a productive place to start.
Read more...A detailed picture of how doctors and medical facilities stack the deck against aged patients and their relatives.
Read more...Eldercare is really the limit case of health care for profit. Stick a tube in the helpless body, extract rent. It’s brilliant in its simplicity!
Read more...On the economic and political origins of America’s stealth imperialism and military Keynesianism, as opposed to Keynes’ original version.
Read more...Finally, the media and analysts are getting a tad more candid about what Supreme Court decisions are really about.
Read more...Yves here. This post explains how the horrific mine explosion in Western Turkey, which has officially claimed nearly 300 lives as the death count continues to rise, was not an accident but the direct result of privatization and circumvention of safety standards.
Read more...How a conversation with a crypto anarchist put the BBC on tilt and unwittingly provided a lesson in how power issues are kept out of polite conversation.
Read more...The absence of serious discussion of an only-worsening student debt problem is troubling.
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