‘You Don’t Need a Tariff, You Need a Revolution’
Chinese point out that Americans are exploited by oligarchs. But the tariffs, like it or not, are part of a radical right counter-revolution.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
More on DOGE’s Fraud and Destruction
An update on DOGE’s rampage through government functions.
Read more...Who Will Pay the Highest Price for Trump’s Postal Service Privatization Push?
“Without competition from our public Postal Service, for-profit firms would jack up delivery fees on as many customers as possible.”
Read more...7 Truths About Trump’s Tariffs — And the High-Stakes Future They Shape
What is Trump trying to achieve on the economic front? Despite all the bobbing and weaving, he does have some core aims.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Return of the Robber Barons – Trump’s Inverted View of America’s Tariff History
Trump’s slash and burn tariff policy is to shrink government, gut regulation and sell off public assets to pay for his tax cuts on super rich
Read more...Trade in the Time of Trump
Trump promised in 2016 and 2024 to undo deindustrialization from globalization and free trade, with tariffs as his main tool. Can it work?
Read more...More Trump Punishment of the Poors: HHS Eliminates Office That Sets Poverty Levels Tied to Benefits for 80 Million People
Yet another Trump gutting of a whole swathe of programs, here by eliminating the experts who knew how to determine poverty thresholds.
Read more...Top Trade Expert Says Trump Tariff Pause Lays Bare ‘Just One More Con on Working People’
Do Trump’s trade flip flops, destructive to everyone save perhaps insider traders, show that he has entered a Mad Ludwig phase?
Read more...Food Banks Tighten Their Belts as Federal Cuts Keep Coming. Patrons Don’t Know Where Else to Turn.
Yet more Trump Administration cruelty: cutting support to food banks.
Read more...Christopher Lasch and the Distemper of Our Time: A Chronicle Foretold
Why Christopher Lasch, who died over 30 years ago, is the historian of our times…or perhaps our first psychohistorian?
Read more...Trump Thinks Tariffs Can Bring Back the Glory Days of US Manufacturing. Here’s Why He’s Wrong
More on the false premise that Trump can restore the US as a manufacturing powerhouse.
Read more...Why America Is Acting This Way on Trade: A Globotics Shock, a Failed Social Policy, and Middle-Class Fury
An attempt to divine the political roots of Trump’s trade and tariff policies.
Read more...Blockbuster Deal Will Wipe Out $30 Billion in Medical Debt. Even Backers Say It’s Not Enough.
A program that purchased medical debt at a deep discount, while effective, still reinforces a predatory system.
Read more...Focus on Market Rout from Overvalued Levels Diverting Attention from Real Economy DOGE, Particularly Social Security and Depth of Tariff Damage
The focus on the market rout pervesely distracts attention from Trump’s massive and probably durable real economy destruction.
Read more...Trump Tariffs Run Over Already-Desperate Car Industry; Higher Prices, Job Cuts, and Supplier Closures Baked In
The tariff situation has developed not necessarily to the advantage of the car industry.
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