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March 25, 2023
Homestock buyback

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Briefly Noted

Financialization and going off the rails with Norfolk Southern

March 6, 2023
Financialization is an awful word. It sounds clumsy in the mouth and refers to a process that has been underway for over 40 years but is nearly unknown to most of us. Before we get to Norfolk Southern, the railroad company, what is financialization? Basically, financialization is a nested set --->> read more -->>
Economy

The Implosion of Southwest Airlines and Financialization

December 29, 2022
Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights representing more than 80%of all cancellations during the Christmas 2022 snowstorm. The scale of this service implosion led to stories about old software systems for managing passenger bookings and flight schedules. Then, discussions of Southwest’s point-to-point flight strategy that differs from the other major --->> read more -->>
Business Births vs Deaths 1978-2011
Economy

The Innovation Economy – not here in America

December 17, 2018
The nearly continuous puffing up of Silicon Valley, the construction of an enormous bio-pharma complex in Cambridge, and other examples of high tech ebullience are offered up by the mass media and the business press as evidence of a dynamic economy. The actual facts show a different story that should --->> read more -->>
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  • Topics Overview
  • Topics
    • – economy
    • – education
    • – empire
    • – environment
    • – family
    • – the free market
    • – healthcare
    • – human nature
    • – inequality
    • – justice, police & prison system
    • – politics
    • – racism – white supremacy
    • – security state
    • – technology
    • – women
  • Briefly Noted
  • Keystone Essays
    • – American Delusions – introduction
    • – Our Social Nature and the Future
    • – our history – the intentionally forgotten
    • – capitalism and free-market Ideology (neoliberalism)
    • – environment
    • – healthcare system
    • – american empire
    • – justice, police, and the prison system
    • – racism in america – white supremacy
  • Other
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