neoliberalism

For the most part, I avoid ever listening to Trump —>> read more –>>

A video version of the earlier post, “$47 Trillion —>> read more –>>

I was already 31 years old when the rip-off of Ame —>> read more –>>

Original posting – 3.6.2023 Matthew Desmond, autho —>> read more –>>

Introducing the In Depth series on the actual workings of capitalism. Commentary on economic theories.

A Note on Jobs & Unemployment Original publica —>> read more –>>

Reich’s latest cartoon does a good job of describing the changes in the US economy, weaker on the underlying political campaign by the rich and corporations to restructure the economy to their benefit. Worth the 6 minute viewing time.

Inequality in wealth and income is a continuing global crisis. The World Inequality Report 2018 defines the problem based on wealth ownership and the transfer of public wealth into private hands. Their are solutions but they require political organization and will.

This website casts new light on the delusions of A —>> read more –>>

Capitalism is driven by a single internal logic that requires the transformation of people and nature into commodities to produce profits. This logic is amoral and the system, excepting for external controls by government and social institutions, just churns on.

For all of the chest beating about the bold risks taken by capitalists, the capitalist time horizon is very short when compared to the many years of work that have gone into almost every significant scientific and technological advance. Without extensive government investment in activities that deliver longer term success, the capitalist system will simply eat its seed corn until it is gone.

If we want to offer an alternative analysis we need direct language that does not refer to thinking and issues from 150 years ago that invites immediate suspicions that those speaking are academics and intellectuals who by definition are not connected to the day-to-day realities of American life.

Read the keystone essay: What Is Market Capitalism —>> read more –>>

Keystone Essay What Is Market Capitalism and Why D —>> read more –>>

AmericanDelusions is changing. AD started out focu —>> read more –>>

The word “regulation” has been used as an epithet and rhetorical sledge hammer by Republicans and the centrist Bill Clinton Democrats as part of a general campaign to discredit anything that the government might do. This is part of the decades long political strategy of the rich and corporations to puff up the delights of “free markets”.

The title of this short book, only 130 pages, Buil —>> read more –>>

Progressives have to declare class war as a centra —>> read more –>>

Dollars and Sense has been around since the 1970s. —>> read more –>>

President Reagan was not the originator of this ce —>> read more –>>

The values of capitalism, especially as expressed —>> read more –>>

The Trump election debacle demonstrates the bankru —>> read more –>>