We Deserve Medicare for All, But What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street
An overview of health care, particularly Medicare, rentierism, with private equity playing a starring role.
Read more...An overview of health care, particularly Medicare, rentierism, with private equity playing a starring role.
Read more...An attempt to correct the “blame the poors” approach to the reality and systemic risk posed by debt among lower-income borrowers.
Read more...Not enough bad can be said about neoclassical economics. The focus today is inflation policy.
Read more...Michael Hudson reprises favorite themes, particularly the role of rentiers and debt dynamics, with some new tidbits.
Read more...Examining the moments and people that helped fuse the US state, economy, and organized crime into one indistinguishable entity.
Read more...Nextdoor and Facebook groups present anecdotes and photos from Marine Park of encounters with migrants from a nearby shelter complex. Others are providing aid.
Read more...Neoliberalism is still doing a fine job of zombifying economies, but the doctrine sadly is in rude health.
Read more...The survival of the euro has come at the cost of Europe’s permanent stagnation and continuing fragmentation
Read more...German elites run up the tab, but the country’s working class is largely stuck with the bill. An attempt to understand why Germany cannot or will not reverse course.
Read more...Delivery platforms DoorDash and UberEats immediately retaliated against a NYC-madated wage increase by redoing their apps to undermine tips.
Read more...The Republicans look serious about restricting immigration or at least rolling back recent Biden moves. But are there any sound approaches?
Read more...Continuing the debate on whether democracy is viable in a capitalist regime.
Read more...e body politic in the West is not at all healthy. Why is there so much denial about that?
Read more...Yves here. While there is a lot of merit in the latest discussion between Radhika Desai and Micheal Hudson on their favorite topic of mutlipolarity, I feel compelled to correct some imprecisions. The video depicts the “German government” as having “raised” the debt brake but then “not being allowed” with no depiction of agency, to […]
Read more...Is organizing a price-fixing cartel still illegal if an algorithm tells you to do it?
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