The Dilemma of the Cooperative Gene
Given the relationship between “money” and real resources, it is impossible to equitably “share” real resources, and effectively create collective goods, when money is a scarce commodity controlled by competition.
Economic Justice
If You Really Care About Social Security, Stop Capitulating To The Left
Let’s start telling the truth about Social Security. We are educators. So let’s educate people on the basic facts.
Dynamics of Labor in The Covid Era
In all the coverage of the labor shortage by mainstream, corporate media, the human element of the power dynamics of waged labor in the COVID-era has steadily been missing from popular analysis.
Implications of El Salvador Adopting Bitcoin as a Currency
For Bitcoin – very little. For El Salvador’s Economy – possible ruin. For global economics – very little.
Taxes Are Paid
The federal government does not collect taxes to pay for anything. It collects taxes to fulfill its Constitutional obligation.
State Based Medicare for All? Not so fast, says Dr. Margaret Flowers
Stated-based programs face many pitfalls that National Improved Medicare for All would not.
MMT and the NEW MARKET SOCIETY
We live in a market society with little chance we shall ever live in anything else and, as such, whatever we hope to accomplish will have to be accomplished within the framework of market society norms.
The Dangerous Lie of ‘Tax-To-Spend’
When you consider the worst ramifications of the most insidious myths of mainstream economic theory, arguably the very worst, most damaging one is the ‘tax-to-spend’ myth.