Putting a Pause on the Practice of Surrogacy
Surrogacy’s health risks raise ethical issues over whether the practice is exploitative and should be banned.
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Who’s Profiting off of the Criminalization of Homelessness?
Private equity, for one, which cashes in at nearly every stage of the American homelessness crisis.
Read more...Time Bomb: How Uninsured Stablecoins and Crypto Derivatives Threaten Financial and Economic Stability
Why stablecoins are another finanical train wreck in the making.
Read more...Economic Justice, Desert, and Capitalism (Again)
Ironically, or maybe not, popular ideas and even those of economists about economic justice are at odds with ownership of capital.
Read more...Lecornu Resigns Less Than a Day After Forming Government; How Long Can Macron Hang On?
The third government Macron has tried to form, under Sébastien Lecornu, fell with shocking speed. Time for a Macron death watch?
Read more...The J K Galbraith Question: The Tyranny of Private Consumption
Can advanced economies free themselves of the pathology that John Kenneth Galbraith warned about, of excessive consumption?
Read more...What Does All the Justice Department Sleaze Mean for Your Rental Housing Costs?
The Biden DOJ closed a price- and wage-fixing loophole from the days of Clinton. Is Trump about to reopen it?
Read more...The Milton Friedman Question
A critical look at the anarcho-libertarian (per his son) propagandist Milton Friedman.
Read more...Satyajit Das: Stablecoins – Invention Looking For A Problem?
Satyajit Das sets forth the very strong case against stablecoin.
Read more...Wall Street’s Deregulation Agenda Will Cost Everyday Americans Everything
Trump administration financial deregulation, eliminating services and eviscerating oversight and enforcement, sets people up for harm
Read more...The Karl Marx Question
Karl Marx has aged well. What happens if you take his analysis seriously?
Read more...“BRICS Are the New Defenders of Free Trade, the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank” and Support Genocide by Continuing to Trade with Israel
Discussions of how BRICS is not living up to its lofty promises and is on the path to supporting neoliberalism and hegemony in new clothes
Read more...Quelle Surprise! CEOs Overwhelmingly Negative on Trump’s Economic Policies as Shallow Fed Rate Cut Confirms Stagflation Worries
Even a bastion of Republican support, CEOs, has soured on Trump’s economic policies, as the damage to regular citizens mounts.
Read more...“The Wider Benefits of Choosing Life Off the Grid”
An argument that going off the grid is about a lot more than solar power and gardens.
Read more...America’s Grid is Nearing Its Breaking Point
In another testament to lack of managerial competence, worries about US grid stabilty rise in the face of AI demand, yet little is being done
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