The Bazooka Diplomacy of Trump’s Tariffs
A look at theory and practice as far as tariffs are concerned, and what that means for Trump’s threats and plans.
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“What Is the Mainstream Media Missing About Elon Musk? He Is Instituting Technocracy”
A discussion of the regime that Elon Musk and his tech bros are in the process of implementing.
Read more...“We Must Fund Oppositions Properly to Save Democracy”
The Financial Times’ Martin Wolf, like quite a few others, looks for ways to save democracy from itself, as in rule by voters.
Read more...Trump’s Shock Doctrine: Uncertainty and the Repudiation of Contracts
How Trump’s economic revolution and the uncertainty it is creating are already wreaking havoc.
Read more...The Execution of the CFPB: Capitalism Survives Another Attempt to Save It
A discussion of Elizabeth Warren’s naivete about the predatory nature of capitalism.
Read more...‘So Much for Lowering Costs’: Fury Over Musk’s Death Wish for CFPB That Returned Over $20 Billion to Consumers
Revealingly, Musk makes closing an agency that keeps billionaires like him from cheating ordinary citizens a top priority.
Read more...Medicaid Work Requirements Could Boot 36 Million People Off Their Health Coverage: Report
“Work requirements are simply another way to cut Medicaid.”
Read more...Is Trump Serious About Trying to Close the Private Equity Carried Interest Loophole?
Trump wants to revive his 2017 plan to curb a private equity tax abuse, the so-called carried interest loophole. Is he likely to succeed now?
Read more...ICE Faking News: Games Search Engines to Make Mass Deportations Appear Way More Massive Than They Are
Mass deportation raids have barely started, yet ICE is faking their prevalence! What gives?
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Thirty-Four – Tony West’s Calamitous Legacy at Uber and with the Kamala Harris Campaign
On Tony West as intellectual leader and major implementer of the similar Uber narrative-driven strategy and the failed Harris campaign.
Read more...The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump
Despite Trump’s enthusiasm for rough treatment of illegal immigrants, growth of the deportation industrial complex has been a two-party affair
Read more...Migrant Vendors Park Carts as Their American Dreams Slip Away
Enforcement was already rising. Under Trump, street vendors have gone into hiding to avoid criminal tickets that could make them ICE targets.
Read more...Higher Impact of Inflation on Lower Income Households Means US Poverty Is Understated
A new study confirms many reports: inflation in the US markedly degraded the position of middle class households, pushing some into poverty
Read more...The Bogus Justification for AI Uptake and the Real Reason for the Scam
AI, in a significant majority of cases, reduces productivity. And there’s not much reason to expect better any time soon.
Read more...From MAHA to MAGA: Can We Get There?
Why MAHA won’t accomplish much even if it gets off the starting block unless the US also addresses inequality. Good luck with that.
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