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Cryptocurrency : the Medium IS the Scam
Roger Gest
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
Steven D. Grumbine
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.
Comparative Analysis of Modern Monetary Theory and Textbook Economics
Rishabh Balamitran
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
Cory Doctorow
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
Charlie Silva
It is up to academics and informed lay-people alike to alter the understanding of banking in the public consciousness.
It’s Time to Call it What It Is – A Capitalism-Induced Ecological Crisis
Erin McCarley
Let’s be clear— this isn’t about voting. This is about building a revolution— an international solidarity movement big enough to take on and replace global capitalism.
Sound Money
Cory Doctorow
The inflation hawks have a point: inflation is genuinely destabilizing. But where the inflation hawks go wrong is in blaming “money printing” for inflation.
The Emperor’s New Commodities
Jonathan Kadmon
Frauds and hucksters have always relied on false dichotomies and thought-terminating cliches to misdirect the attention of their audience from more appealing alternatives.
They’re Worried About The Spread Of Information, Not Disinformation
Caitlin Johnstone
..corporate media have increasingly taken to branding realities inconvenient to US information goals
Rohan Grey Introduces ECash
Roger Gest
Grey briefly discusses the history and nature of various money schemes, from tally sticks and various tokens up through phone minutes and cryptocurrencies.