The Fed’s “Chicken Run”: Why Sticking with High Rates Will Crash the Economy
How the Fed is acting like James Dean in the famous “chicken run” auto race in Rebel Without a Cause.
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Analysis Shows How Surging Stock Buybacks Bolster Case for Corporate Tax Hike
The magnitude of corporate cash going to stock buybacks suggests reversing the Trump tax cuts poses little real economy risk.
Read more...Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
The Elon Musk $48 Billion stock-option package and its implications for the EV transition
Read more...Power in Sovereign Debt Markets: Explaining the Uneven Debtor–Creditor Landscape and Its Implications
A long time ago, the US intervened on the side of underwater sovereign borrowers. Private creditors now extract even more than back then.
Read more...Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide
Under the radar, investment funds have been buying farm land in poor countries, leading to substantial price rises.
Read more...Corporate Landlords’ Profits Soar as Tenants Drown in Rent Hikes and Fees
Cheerleading about a flat CPI ignores the housing, with tenants generally and the ones with corporate landlords not getting relief
Read more...The Russian Endgame in Ukraine and European Resistance to “Right Wing” Advances: A Thought Experiment
How the unexpected success of right wing parties in France, Germany, and Austria might be focusing a few minds about Russia.
Read more...The Desire to Be “Your Own Boss” in America
On the romance of being you own boss.
Read more...The War Racket in Germany
What happens when everyone starts to believe in the con?
Read more...One Issue Proved Key to the Opposition’s Stunning Success in India’s Election: Caste Politics
Did Modi’s BJP suffer a setback due to failing to provide enough economic benefits to lower-caste voters?
Read more...The EU’s Outsourced Migration Control Is Violent, Expensive and Ineffective
Does a critique of EU migration policies reveal more than it intended to?
Read more...Mount Sinai Eye & Ear Nurses Rally for Layoff Plan as Beth Israel Shutdown Looms
New York City’s Mount Sinai is trying to shutter acquired Beth Israel and its own respected eye and ear facility despite state opposition
Read more...The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: A Review
A cogent discussion of the complex, accelerating legitimacy crisis masked by bleats about “defending our democracy”
Read more...‘A Monstrosity’: Biden Blasted Over Planned Executive Order on Asylum
Biden attempts to throw big bone to the right on immigration. But will he satisfy anyone?
Read more...Latin America: From the Struggle for Independence (1808) to the Great War (1914)
An overview of political and economic post-colonial history in Latin America.
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