Saturday, 5 October , 2024

US economy

A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American...

Author(s): Lichtenstein, Nelson Stein, Judith Reviewer(s): Galbraith, James K. Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein. A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University...

Why the Banking System is Breaking Up

by Michael Hudson March 13, 2023 The collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy...

Corporate profit, electricity deregulation and the disaster in Texas

By Patrick Martin Feb. 28/2021 In a social disaster now entering its fourth day, as many as 4.5 million people have been hit by rolling blackouts...

America Abandoned Its Economic Prophet. The World Embraced Him | By...

John Kenneth Galbraith was an intellectual celebrity 50 years ago—and it would be a mistake to ignore him today January 15, 2021 U.S. President-elect Joe...

Top world scientists: Stop Donald Trump!

On November 3, Vote to End Attacks on Science Choosing Donald Trump for president is choosing fiction over fact—a fatal mistake October 9, 2020 Instead of thinking...

Robert Brenner: Escalating Plunder

"With the us economy performing so very badly, as it has been doing for such an extended period, the bipartisan political establishment and its...

Coronavirus calls US’ ‘world’s richest country’ bluff: Will it cling to...

by Helen Buyniski 16 Mar, 2020 The coronavirus containment measures the US has (belatedly, reluctantly) taken are revealing enormous fissures in its first-world facade, from legions...

Corona Debt Jubilee

By Michael Hudson March 22 2020 Cross posted from the Washington Post. Michael Hudson, author of “… and forgive them their debts” and “Killing the Host,” is...

Donald Trump: An American Tragedy for the U.S. and the Entire...

By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay October 24, 2019 “If this  government ever became a tyrant, if a dictator ever took charge in this country, the technological capacity that...

Don’t forget to file your taxes, America, because Amazon paid ZERO...

Amazon ranks as the most valuable public company in the world, and is the second-largest employer in the United States. Yet, when it comes...