Your Money or Your Life
The function of government itself once it’s privatized is to make money for the donor class, which is basically the financial class and the monopoly class that finance creates.
Economic Justice
“Debt” Ceilings for Dummies
Beautifully simple are a sovereign nation’s sectoral balances. They readily demonstrate that the government’s negative is the public’s positive, and vice versa.
Cryptocurrency : the Medium IS the Scam
In a piece titled “Cryptocurrency: Don’t Blame the Medium for the Scam,” libertarian Counterpunch contributor Thomas Knapp wholly misunderstands the nature of money and cryptocurrency.
The Illusion of Upward Mobility
There is no real entrée into the world of the elite, but you won’t know it until you arrive, exhausted, at the locked door, chased by all the angry working people who think you’ve found the key.
Fact-checking Biden’s Inflation Remarks
On October 21st, 2022, President Biden made an address regarding his administration’s historic deficit reduction. Let’s break it down.
Comparative Analysis of Modern Monetary Theory and Textbook Economics
The current economic framework within which policy is developed seems incapable of addressing climate change. Even policymakers who acknowledge the magnitude of the problem are avoiding real solutions, not knowing how solutions can be funded.
US health insurers get more and more federal funding, deliver less and less care
The American healthcare system is the worst of all possible worlds. Unlike every other wealthy country, the US leaves its health insurance to the private sector, where your health and your life are a distant second to shareholder profits.
How Banks Create Money When They Lend
It is up to academics and informed lay-people alike to alter the understanding of banking in the public consciousness.
Building the People’s Movement
If we hope to build an America that works in the interests of the working class, then we must transcend the partisan culture war and come together around working class issues.