The Next Unwind of Social Guarantees: Home and Medical Insurance
A Wall Street Journal column suggests that elite conventional wisdom favors more gutting of medical and home insurance as unduly “socialized”
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There’s No Growth, so What Should Labour Do?
Labour’s dilemma — which has parallels in other countries — leads to vague aspirations that are almost meaningless, and probably undeliverable. So, what should it do?
Read more...For Homeless Seniors, Getting Into Stable Housing Takes a Village — And a Lot of Luck
Another indictment of America’s claims of superiority: a coming tsunami of homeless elderly
Read more...What Will A Trump-Aligned EU Look Like?
The gangster state’s bust out of Europe is set to accelerate as the EU center embraces its true nature.
Read more...Was Biden Right to Warn about the Tech-Industrial Complex?
On Biden’s self-serving and lame warning about the evils of the tech-industrial complex, which to him amounts to social media disinformation.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Trump on Greenland, Panama and Canada
Michael Hudson on the method in Trump’s seeming madness in laying claim to Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal.
Read more...mBridge, a Bank of International Settlements Project Hyped by BRICS Fans as a Way to Evade Sanctions, Shut Down
Our debunking the hype of the purported BRICS payment potential of a BIS project, mBridge, has proven to be true, and then some.
Read more...Actuaries and Scientists Warn Climate Shocks Risk ‘Planetary Insolvency’ as Power Struggles About How to Rebuild LA Begin
A new report shows a 50% GDP fall from 2070 to 2090 due to climate change. Los Angeles gives a taste of coming struggles about what to do.
Read more...Closing Ranks: Organised Labour and Immigration
Quelle surprise! Historically, high levels of immigration in the US led to more union formation.
Read more...Gaza Ceasefire Deal Still Not Approved by Knesset. And Why Should the World Trust Israel to Comply if So?
Sadly Netanyahu is trying to slip the noose of the much-ballyhooed Gaza ceasefire deal and may succeed.
Read more...James Galbraith: How the Fed Became Less Powerful Despite Weakened Congressional Oversight
Fifty years ago the actions of the Fed mattered. Today, as far the aggregate measures of America’s domestic economy go, they do not.
Read more...Bluesky: Exit, Voice, and Platform Loyalty
On some of the subtler forms of Bluesky censorship.
Read more...Make America Healthy Again: Is MAHA a Trope or a Movement?
A look at MAHA’s recommendations, per the Casey Means book Good Energy, and why they are an affluent-focused, neoliberal prescription.
Read more...U.S. Sanctions on China’s Oil Firms Are Just the Beginning Under Trump
A discussion of some moves Trump is expected to take to try to contain China, starting with energy and avoiding use of the dollar.
Read more...Trump’s HUD Secretary and Our Reverse Robin Hood Housing System
A Trump-Turner housing agenda appears destined to continue the worst aspects of the US approach to affordable housing.
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