Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now John Titus Explains the War for Bankocracy The Corbett Report Feb 11 READ IN APP SHOW NOTES AND COMMENTS: https://corbettreport.com/the-war-for-bankocracy/ Today James talks to returning guest John Titus about his new documentary series, The War for Bankocracy. Titus’ documentary details […]
Richard D. Wolff, a renowned American economist and professor emeritus at UMass Amherst, is known for his sharp critique of economic inequality and advocacy for worker cooperatives. Through his books, lectures, and public talks, he explores economic democracy and alternative systems.
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Tesla has officially kicked off production at its new Megafactory in Shanghai! The facility is set to produce the company’s powerful energy-storage batteries, known as Megapacks, at an impressive initial capacity of 10,000 units per year.
Sohrab Ahmari February 10, 2025 7 mins Last month, in one of his final acts as outgoing director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Rohit Chopra proposed to restrict financial institutions from dropping customers based on their political or religious views. If adopted, the rule would have […]
WEB VERSION February 10, 2025 Math and Poetry Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I is one of the most widely read political and economic texts of the modern epoch. It has ignited sweeping revolutions, helped sustain social movements and political parties, and even inspired the formation of several vast […]
New in Telos Insights Beyond Global Capitalism and the Ecological Crisis From the 2024 Postliberalism Conference Over the coming days, we will be posting videos from Political Economy and the Good Life: The 2024 Postliberalism Conference, which took place on December 13–14, 2024, at the University of Cambridge. […]
OCGFC = Owners and Controllers of Global Financialized Capital
The professional-managerial class – Barbara and John Ehrenreich Libcom note: Textual notes with asterisks in the original are “inline” linked footnotes here. Numbered footnotes in the original appear at the bottom of the text.To generations of radicals, the working class has been the bearer of socialism, the agent […]
Richard D. Wolff exposes the hard truth for the US empire and its client states in the West: their economic decline is fast becoming a crash that no amount of sanctions or tariffs can reverse. In this must-watch video, Prof. Wolff explains how BRICS & China’s rise is […]
How the past 75 years of infrastructure development has created a massive predicament for industrial nations and what comes next The Honest Sorcerer Feb 09, 2025 Photo by Andrey Metelev on Unsplash A Japanese truck driver was trapped in a sinkhole created by a corroded wastewater pipeline early […]
Michael A Alexander Feb 09, 2025 A potted history of shifts in the economic experience over the past 60 years There was a time when my parent’s generation were in their rising adult and middle phases of life when the economic experience for ordinary people was positive, and […]
Housing inflation for new buyers is at least 20-30% per year Neoliberal Feudalism Feb 08, 2025 Since 2020, the cost of new homeownership in the U.S. has risen by at least 20-30% annually. While official figures show modest overall inflation, the real price increases are far higher than […]
I’ve always said: WALL STREET RUNS THE COUNTRY. No if, and, or but
7 February, 2025 Bryan Mercadente The Bank of England is at it again. After years of reckless money printing and artificially low interest rates that distorted the economy and impoverished the working class, its next brilliant idea is… to do it all over again. As the BBC reports, […]
8 February, 2025 Sebastian Wang Mills, John. How to Make the Economy Grow John Mills Institute for Prosperity July 2024 ISBN: 978-1-3999-9156-8. John Mills has been writing for many years about the sluggish and even non-existent growth of the British economy. There is much he says with which […]
Wall Street is buying up neighborhoods and communities across the U.S. In 2022, big investors bought more than one in every four single family homes sold nationwide. It’s wrecking the housing market, driving up rents, and making it nearly impossible for working people to afford to buy a […]
Mobile homes are one of the last remaining affordable housing options in America. Now they’ve become private equity’s latest target. Private equity firms now own at least 1200 parks nationwide. And residents have seen their rents spike by as much as 100% in the last 6 years. —–
Just 4 companies control almost all the fertilizer in America. Fertilizer prices have tripled since 1980, farmers are struggling, and it could get even worse. Now the Kochs are planning a billion-dollar merger to drive up prices for farmers—and suffocate rural America—even more.
By Caitlin Doornbos Published Feb. 7, 2025, 5:40 p.m. ET The US won’t repeat the mistakes of the Iraq War by failing to secure valuable resources from Ukraine in exchange for help ending Russia’s nearly three-year-old invasion, President Trump’s special envoy to the conflict exclusively told The Post. […]
The Independent Review 2025 Student Essay Contest is Now Open! The Independent Review is pleased to announce the 2025 Student Essay Contest, offering undergraduates the opportunity to submit original essays on a wide range of topics, including the future of the economy, higher education, social justice, or any other […]
Jose Nino’s Digest Here is my most recent content for you El Niño Speaks 146: The Case for Gold Watch now | Claudio Grass returns to El Niño Speaks to talk about the value of gold and why it remain an important asset during times of geopolitical instability. […]
New in Telos Insights The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society From the 2024 Postliberalism Conference Over the coming days, we will be posting videos from Political Economy and the Good Life: The 2024 Postliberalism Conference, which took place on December 13–14, 2024, at the University of […]
By Joel Kotkin February 5, 2025/in Politics, The Economy In his farewell address, mere days before leaving the White House, Joe Biden made a dramatic intervention. Warning about how an oligarchy of “extreme wealth, power and influence” risked the basic rights of every citizen, he even suggested it […]
February 5, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, In an unprovoked move, President Trump has thrown the world into chaos by threatening punitive tariffs against our allies and neighbors in […]
by Peter Zeihan on February 5, 2025 The Live Q&A on Patreon is this Friday, February 7. If you were looking for an excuse to upgrade to The Analyst tier, now is the time… In addition to getting access to the Live Q&A and all the premium content, you’ll also […]
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by Peter Zeihan on February 3, 2025 Hello to all our newsletter members! We’re less than a week away from our Live Q&A on February 7. If you were looking for an excuse to upgrade to The Analyst tier, here is your reason… In addition to getting access to the […]
Ryan Grim Feb 03, 2025 Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images. In case you missed it: In the wake of our exposé of Microsoft’s […]
Show some fucking class. Antonio Melonio Jan 29, 2025 Photo by MART PRODUCTION You honestly believe you might get there one day, don’t you? That if you just grind hard enough, hustle longer, keep your nose to the never-ending wheel, snort some cocaine, you’ll strike gold—some multi-million-dollar jackpot […]
Metro area’s unsheltered homeless population remains one of the smallest per capita, but advocates say more is needed to help a vulnerable and evolving group. By Chris Bowling The freezing wind swept across the asphalt. People clutching their coats hustled inside the midtown Omaha Target, scurrying past a […]
February 2, 20259:44 PM EST Reuters A person walks past a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan August 2, 2024. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights Summary Asia Pacific stocks, US futures fall as Canada, Mexico threaten to retaliate Trump slaps 25% tariffs on Canada, Mexico; 10% levy on China […]
Author: Sarah Russo, Rob Hackford (WGRZ) Published: 11:05 AM EST February 2, 2025 Updated: 11:05 AM EST February 2, 2025 WGRZ NEW YORK — Homelessness in New York State rose more than 50% from 2023 to 2024, more than four times the rest of the country, according to a […]
On the campaign trail and beyond, Donald Trump and MAGA right have repeatedly presented themselves as the true representatives of America’s beleaguered working class. And yet, like the Capitol rotunda on Inauguration Day, Trump’s administration is filled with billionaires, mega-millionaires, and corporate oligarchs whose staggering wealth is increasing […]
Richard D. Wolff is an American economist and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is known for his critiques of economic inequality and his advocacy for worker cooperatives as a way to empower individuals and address systemic issues within the economy. Through his books, lectures, […]
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DC plane crash, funding freeze, NLRB firings, and what Trump’s chaotic directives mean for labor From the attempt to broadly freeze federal grants and loans to high-profile firings at the National Labor Relations Board, TRNN Reporter Mel Buer and Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez break down this week’s chaotic directives […]
How to Fire Your Boss Anyone who works for a living knows how degrading and alienating it is to be yelled at for doing your job, maybe just because your boss is having a bad day. The daily grind devours our time, exhausts our energies, and reduces our […]
Wage Theft and Worker Abuse at Royal India/Dastoor Update Seattle Solidarity Network is excited to showcase the wins we have amassed over the past year and a half of active boycott and protest: Since starting the fight in March 2023, Seasol has held 43 pickets (and counting) at […]
Americans rarely touch their government directly. They engage with the American system at work. Jan 29, 2025 The modern world of work is a great black hole warping politics. Few people realize this, because you can’t see a black hole directly with your eyes—they don’t give off light. […]
View this email in your browser The Failure of Chinese Real Estate by Peter Zeihan on January 31, 2025 Hello to all our newsletter members! We’re excited to announce that our next Live Q&A is on February 7. If you were looking for an excuse to upgrade to The Analyst […]
Read in browser February 1, 2025 Senior Fellow Judy Shelton breaks down the connection between oil prices and inflation on Fox Business. Don’t Substitute Tariffs for Income Taxes: You’ll Get Both Senior Fellow and David J. Theroux Chair Phillip W. Magness argues with co-author David R. Henderson argue […]
by Rose Sybil Rose Sybil Feb 01, 2025 Rose Sybil argues that humanity’s overreliance on technique, driven by the illusions of humanism and consumption, is destabilizing ecosystems, disrupting cultural bonds, and accelerating societal and environmental entropy, necessitating a fundamental shift in human organization to restore balance and preserve […]
Episode 210 with Ben Norton Krystal Kyle & Friends Jan 31, 2025 From Dimon at Davos to many of our own guests here on KK&F, there’s a lot of talk about an economic bubble. Trump’s return to power and the market volatility that this return brings with it […]
After years of promising to “drain the swamp” and reduce the influence of special interests in government, Trump is building an administration made up of his corporate friends and backers. So far Trump’s picks for key roles will favor Big Tech, finance, military contractors, Big Pharma, the health […]
30 January, 2025 Sebastian Wang Rachel Reeves plans to create a “British Silicon Valley” between Oxford and Cambridge. Forgive me if I don’t get excited. This is yet another example of political grandstanding masquerading as visionary policymaking. It’s a headline-grabber, designed to make us forget that Britain’s economy […]
Anarchists in the Labor Movement #6 – Restaurants This is the sixth installment in our Anarchists in the Labor Movement series. Click through the links to read installment #1 with an education worker, #2 with healthcare workers, #3 with a metal worker, #4 with a public librarian, and #5 with a public school […]
Federal workers union warns Trump purge ‘will cause chaos’ This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Jan. 28, 2024. It is shared here with permission under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license. A union that represents over 800,000 employees of the federal and District of Columbia […]
January 29, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, The Trump Administration has now had a full week under its belt, but it is still uncertain how it will be staffed. […]
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2025 If any lessons can be drawn from Prohibition, it may be that the easy call to “pass a law” to bring about a millennium does not always work, that the supposed cure can be worse than the disease, and that the economic law of […]
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