AI-Powered Robot Dogs Guarding Reviled Data Centers Is Where We Have Arrived
Robot dogs, known as “quadrupeds,” patrol sprawling energy-sucking complexes, which are increasingly met with protest around the country.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
What Does Europe Do Now?
EU economy chief downplays risks from war against Iran as misleadership class seeks ways to make crises even worse.
Read more...Causal Evidence on Cost-of-Living Shocks: How the Energy Crisis Affected Energy Demand, Labour Supply, and Financial Strain
Quelle surprise! Poorer households have to make across-the-board spending cuts when hit with a price shock.
Read more...Widening the ‘We’: Meeting the Crisis of Common Sense
Oligarch overreach on every front presents challenges—and opportunities.
Read more...How Accent Discrimination Reinforces America’s Deepest Divides
The American Southern accent reveals how linguistic prejudice reinforces classism, regionalism, and subconscious bias across generations.
Read more...Trump’s Iran War Is an Affordability Disaster
You can’t say affordability is your top priority and then start a war in the Middle East.
Read more...Why Chase Taylor Swift? Stop the Corporate Looting That Makes Billionaires
A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.
Read more...Companies Report Raging Inflation, Except in Wages & Rents
Companies tamp down on wage increases thanks to double-digit inflation in employee health insurance, hurting real household incomes.
Read more...AI and the Distribution of Income Between Capital and Labour
AI is working according to plan, further enriching the owner class at the expense of workers.
Read more...Massive US War Spending Hike Raises Debt, Taxes, Doubts
As US President Donald Trump pushes the world to war, arms spending has been rising worldwide. Wars secure more budgetary allocations, mainly benefiting the US-dominated military-industrial complex.
Read more...Senate Democrats to Introduce Bill to Limit Private Equity and Big Investor Ownership of Single Family Homes Despite Nearly Zero Impact on Affordabilty
On of Trump affordability ideas, of limits on big investor ownership of single family homes, is moving forward even though it won’t do much.
Read more...Ruling for the Rich: Evidence of a Pro-Wealthy Bias on the US Supreme Court
Quelle surprise! The Supreme Court hearts the rich!
Read more...Trump Doubling Down on Tariffs After SCOTUS Nixing Sweeping “Emergency” Abuse: Bad for Businesses, Economy, and Trump
The Trump tariffs mess in the wake of his 6-3 Supreme Court loss on his misuse of “emergency” authority is even worse than you might imagine.
Read more...Rob Urie: No Exit – How Obama’s Bank Bailouts Produced Trump
Profiling the Democratic Party’s doom loop, starting with the Obama “get out of jail free” cards to financiers after the crisis.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Destiny of Civilization – Financialization & Collapse
Michael Hudson explains how industrial capitalism was radical in aiming to free economies and markets from rent-seeking and financialization.
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