How prisoners are rebelling against slave labor in Florida penitentiaries.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
A US Economic Boom in 2018?
Not that it comes as a surprise, but talk of the US economy being in a boom is hype.
Reminder: NYC Meeting on Friday, January 12
This Friday will be a balmy day, so we hope you’ll come out from hibernation and join NYC readers for some lively conversation at our meetup tomorrow. Michael Hudson has also said he’ll join us along with other local luminaries. So if you will be in the New York metro area, be sure drop by […]
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/10/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA, Trump at Davos, 2020 candidates, Kucinich, Oprah, Steele dossier, consumer credit, Big Ag, Medicare, leading
Reclaiming the Tax: Foregrounding the Public Covenant
Rethinking the MMT rhetoric around tax….and implications for policy prescriptions.
China: The Aging Dragon
The weight of the policies from previous decades hangs over China as it attempts to confront an upcoming demographic crisis
ECB Spawned Financial Dependency That’s Now Very Hard to Undo
The ECB is very eager to withdraw extraordinary support. But among others, a lot of weak banks are hooked on it.
International Trade and Globalization: Are Benefits Truly Mutual?
Questioning economic orthodoxies on trade.
2:00PM Water Cooler 1/9/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Open thread.
Meltdown and Spectre FAQ: Crapification at Scale
Billions, nay trillions, of processors. What, if anything, to do?
CalPERS Launches Illegal, Corrupt, Unjustified and Beneficiary-Damaging Private Equity “Strategic Partner” Search Obviously Designed to Favor BlackRock
CalPERS looks to be handing the private equity keys to BlackRock in a breathtakingly crooked process.
The Link Between Neoliberalism, Perfectionism, and Mental Health Disorders
Perfectionism is rising among the young, and that’s not a good thing.
Gaius Publius: The Story of 2017 (Part 2)
Why the ordinary-ness of 2017 is in some ways as important as its unusual moments.
