What the World Can Learn from Uruguay as the Global Housing Crisis Deepens
Cooperative housing has been a big success in building affordable housing in Uruguray. But can this model be exported to the US?
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The Fight for Hearts and Minds: Christian Churches Filling Void Created by Social Service Cuts, With Some Also Hard-Selling Far Right Political Messages
As safety nets shred, some Christian churches provide key services to the poor while others use the desperation to build political power
Read more...AI and Workers’ Wellbeing: Lessons from Germany’s Early Experience
An only mildly negative report on AI implementation from Germany, and why that is not likely to be generalizable to the US.
Read more...Western Life Is Only One Way to Live
The “march of civilization” is the West’s founding myth. And yes, it’s a myth.
Read more...Why Inflation Sticks Around: The Role of Class Warfare in Price Persistence
A new twist on inflation: how workers and corporates trying to preserve their financial position has the effect of perpetuating inflation
Read more...Wars, Taxation, and Increases in Representation
A historical analysis shows that greater representation was a bargain autocratic, here feudal, rulers had to strike to get support for war
Read more...“The Corporate Takeover of Housing”
Debunking some widely held misperceptoins about why US housing is so pricey.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Who Needs Marx in 2025?
To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx.
Read more...U.S. Political System Is Bought, Not Broken. A New Party Won’t Fix the Basic Problem.
Real reform in American politics won’t come new parties — but from breaking investors’ grip and rebuilding power from the ground up.
Read more...Possible Kraft Heinz Breakup: A Buffett Investment Failure, Thanks to Healthier Tastes Among the Better Off and Need for Better Bargains for the Rest
A badly under-perfoming merger, Kraft and Heinz, is set to be reversed. Did that deal undermine the giants adapting to changing tastes?
Read more...What Does the US’ Increasing Emulation of Israel Augur for the Country’s Future?
As cooperation in the killing fields of Gaza continues, the genocidal ideology comes home. What is the way out of this madness?
Read more...Billionaires Flail About Trying to Beat Mamdani; Wall Street Journal Describes Shambolic Plan to Spend $20 Million
What fun! Billionaires running around all hair on fire over their inabilty to do much to check Mamdani.
Read more...That $20 Dress Direct from China Now Costs $30 After Trump Closed a Tariff Loophole – and the US Will Soon End the ‘De Minimis’ Exemption for the Rest of the World, too
How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China (and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.
Read more...Early Job Mentoring, Placement, and Training Boost Refugee Integration Without High Costs
Like it or not, advanced economies are committed to immigration to counter low birthrates. Better refugee integration reduces the friction.
Read more...The Sad (Very Familiar) New York Times and Its Mamdani Hit Piece
The hit parade, as in the hit piece parade, on New York City mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani, is still in high gear.
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