Articles from Our Community
The Price of Hunger
Karen Caligiuri
Inadequate access to nutrition is a problem Americans can solve. It’s time to shut down the false narratives about pay-fors that keep solutions out of reach.
It’s OK to be Angry About Bernie Sanders
Birrion Sondahl
Bernie gave up on the fight long before we did and his actions have made it clear he no longer fights for the same ideals.
It Almost Happened Here: The Business Plot, Money Creation, And The Capital Order
Jonathan Kadmon
What power actually fears is that their carefully crafted illusions will go up in smoke.
Where Does A Bullet Go?
Roger Gest
We need to slash our obscenely large and lethal military, but cutting military spending means less money entering our communities.
Taxes Don’t Fund Federal Spending
Steven D. Grumbine
Our federal government doesn’t need revenue. So why the chatter about how will the government get money to fund its operations?
Your Money or Your Life
Real Progressives
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.
“Debt” Ceilings for Dummies
Roger Gest
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
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.
