US economy
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...
Death toll rises to 71, more than 1,000 missing from devastating...
By Evan Blake
17 November 2018
The ongoing wildfires in California, including the most deadly and destructive in the state’s history, are a horrific exposure...
Why China Is Running Circles Around America
By Ellen Brown
Feb 26, 2018
“One Belt, One Road,” China’s $1 trillion infrastructure initiative, is a massive undertaking involving highways, pipelines, transmission lines, ports, power...