Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Nine: Despite Massive Price Increases Uber Losses Top $31 Billion
Uber burns through yet more cash, but analysts and reporters fail to question its extremely misleading financials.
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Resource Limits to American Capitalism & The Predator State Today
James K. Galbraith discusses the shift of the US from industrialism to his so-called predator state: finance-led, military-centered corporatism
Read more...Thoughts on the Canadian Trucker “Freedom Convoys”
Who are they, and what are their demands?
Read more...Ocean Summit Launches Today in France
The Ocean Summit launches today in France, a long overdue effort to grapple with marine regulatory issues, including climate change and plastics pollution.
Read more...The 50 Biggest US Donors Gave or Pledged Nearly $28 Billion in 2021 – Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates Account for $15 Billion of That Total
No, you are not paranoid if you worry about the outsized influence of the Gates Foundation.
Read more...Resist Inflation Phobia Coup
Efforts to cure inflation, at least for poorer countries, will prove to be more damaging than the disease.
Read more...Occupy the SEC to DoJ: Act on Congressional Mandate, Quit Rubber Stamping Bank Mergers
Occupy the SEC is back! The small group of lawyers, bank compliance experts, and financial services industry product specialists generated an outside reputation with its highly praised, over 300 page comment letter on Dodd Frank. As Law.com wrote: In detailing how they believe the Volcker Rule can be strengthened, Occupy the SEC has written what […]
Read more...New Report: Monetary Policy Without Interest Rate Hikes
A fresh report lead authored by Nathan Tankus takes on orthodoxy monetary policy ideas and provides Modern Monetary Theory solutions.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Covid Burden Falling Hardest on Low Income Workers…But Don’t Expect Any Help
Don’t get us wrong. We really like EPI. But a new piece on Covid’s impact on low income workers has good analysis and out of date proposals.
Read more...IMF Surcharges: A Lose-Lose Policy for Global Recovery
The IMF seems unable to drop its punitive, self and “client” destructive habits.
Read more...‘Keep Pushing’: Momentum Grows Behind Effort to Ban Stock Trading
Will Congress move to ban its members from trading shares of stock while they’re in office?
Read more...Michael Hudson: America’s Real Adversaries Are Its European and Other Allies
America has gone off the deep end re Ukraine. It’s pressuring allies to engage in economic self-harm, which is not a relationship-builder
Read more...Blinken’s Booby Traps – How The US Propaganda Paper Released In Madrid Proposes to Go to War With Russia While Claiming to Do The Opposite
The US seems to think it is too clever by half in dealing with Russia. But some parties close to the action, like Europeans, aren’t so keen.
Read more...Right to Repair: Massachusetts Auto Measure Stalls
Automakers have mounted a legal challenge to Massachusetts auto telematics right to repair statute. Will the Biden administration and the FTC seek to apply data rules and tools to vehicle telematics data?
Read more...The Great Amazon Land Grab – How Brazil’s Government Is Turning Public Land Private, Clearing the Way for Deforestation
At the U.N. climate summit in 2021, 141 countries – including Brazil – signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. Yet land grabs continue to place the Amazon ecosystem at risk.
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