The Ever-Shrinking Eldercare Workforce
Another health industry train wreck in the making is the rising difficulty of staffing so-called eldercare needs, particularly dementia care.
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How Voting Systems Influence Immigration Policy
How America’s liberal immigration regime was a predictable result of how we decide elections.
Read more...Move Fast and Break Everything: Crypto and the Democrats
How the Democrats brought crypto back from the dead after the FTX collapse and how weak oversight harms consumers and produces systemic risk.
Read more...The Next Frontier of Climate Accountability: Making Big Food Pay Its Ecological Bill
Food industry induced environmental degradation is more serious than most realize. We could reverse this trajectory….but will we?
Read more...Why Politicians Won’t Fix Affordability
Why affordability crisis is a symptom of predatory neoliberal practices. Concentrated wealth looks set to keep this new norm in place.
Read more...Two Decades of Chinese Industrial Subsidies
A profile of China’s subsidies and how they have changed over time. Counter-intuitively, agriculture is the most important recipient.
Read more...How China’s Overinvestment Helped Produce Africa’s Deindustrialization
An in-depth article from a leftist vantage on China’s extensive involvement in Africa finds that it has been a net negative for development
Read more...There Are No Free Markets
Neoliberal free market ideology was always a fantasy. But what comes next given the late stage capitalism breakdown?
Read more...AI and Systemic Risk
The popular press is whistling past the graveyard of AI systemic risk even as heavyweight experts warn more needs to be done.
Read more...Progressive Educator Myles Horton’s Lessons for Fighting for Social Justice Today
Horton’s work offers a compelling model of how popular education can contribute to progressive change, fostering critical thinking in slow times and accelerating the spread of radical ideas during movement peaks.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Economic Unravelling of the Political West
Michael Hudson describes the development and progression of America’s economic parasitism.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Shadow of Financial Instability
Shadow banks, rebranded as anodyne “non-bank financial institutions” are larger than ever and pose a threat in a new financial crisis
Read more...Has Public Debt Become Unmanageable?
Why alarmism about public debt is fundamentally misguided.
Read more...Doctors, Strikes and the Failures of Wes Streeting and Labour
It appears Wes Streeting has channeled his inner Trump and is trying to bully NHS doctors when he does not hold good cards.
Read more...What’s at Stake in Trump’s Executive Order Aiming to Curb State-Level AI Regulation
Fortunately, an executive order won’t stop states from restricting AI. But expect the Administration to try other routes.
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