Bond Markets Do Not Rule – Governments Do
A reminder that the bogeyman of bond vigilantes, as in investor/capitalist dominance, is overdone.
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“I’ve Seen States Collapse; Now I See It Happening Here”
A grass-roots persepctive on the collapse of the rule of law in America.
Read more...The British Media Again Ignores the Corbyn Insurgency
As Nigel Farage dominates headlines, Jeremy Corbyn is being overlooked by the media – just as he was in 2017
Read more...Financial Times Study, Finding Blacks Twice as Likely as Whites to Have Mortgage Applications Rejected, Reignites Debate Over Discrimination
A Financial Times study stirs the pot with a new analysis: blacks and other out groups still face considerable discrmination in lending
Read more...Trump Floats Idea of Declaring Housing Emergency: Another Self-Sabotage Operation?
Quelle surprise! The Scott Bessent announcement of a possible Trump housing emergency made it sound like a stunt, not a plan.
Read more...Social Murder as a Necropolitical Governance Technology
What is social murder, why is it increasing, and how to fight it.
Read more...Nearly 1,000 ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Protests Planned Across US for Labor Day
Are protests alone enough to confront the billionaires?
Read more...Michael Hudson: How Lenders Sought and Got Power in the Roman Era and Helped Legitimate Later Rentierism
Michael Hudson recaps the long history of limits on lenders’ rights for the benefit of society and how the Roman era was an inflection point
Read more...Health Insurance Price Increases Should Cause Americans More Alarm
An article that usefully documents the magnitude of health insurance price increases nevertheless blames the victims.
Read more...Neoliberalism Is Not a Viable Option
How neoliberalism contributes to the growth of fascism.
Read more...Our Coming Arab Springs?
Resource stresses are rising in many parts of the world. How long before we see political ruptures, including on a Arab Spring level?
Read more...Has Extreme Poverty Really Plunged Since the 1980s? New Analysis Suggests Not
A new analysis challenges the widely-held view that extreme poverty has fallen sharply, and finds a big reversal due to neoliberal “reforms”
Read more...The Core Problem of Economic Inequality: How Much Is Too Much?
Experts accept that economic ineqality is inevitable. But how does one determine acceptable/producitve levels versus destabilitzing ones?
Read more...Tucker Slams Predatory Buy Now, Pay Later Loans as the Economist Celebrates This New Debt Slavery Device
A relatively new financial product, buy now pay later loans, is deepening the misery of already over-extended Americans, especially Gen Z
Read more...The US Should Look to Putin for Help to Rebuild Trust in American Institutions
American elites looked at post-USSR Russia and said “let’s do that here.” A president serious about MAGA should ask Putin how he dug the county out of that hole.
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