Sunday, April 26, 2026

Capitalism, contagion, and moral hazard: A cure worse than the disease?

Experience in this unprecedented health crisis is conclusive: Absent an impartial referee there is nothing to prevent a mythical free market from decaying into crony capitalism and causing irreparable damage to society, economy, and a badly battered political system.

Whistleblowers Challenge Candidates: Stand Against Wall Street Fraud

A new organization, Bank Whistleblowers United, calls on candidates to not take contributions from financial companies that have engaged in fraud and to commit to a set of actions that will "restore the rule of law" on Wall Street.

How Power Works

When the state decides to isolate, discredit and crush you it has innumerable ways to do so.

The Rover Pipeline spills again, in the same spot where it spilled 2 million...

The Rover pipeline alone has more “noncompliance incidents” than any other interstate gas pipeline.

Crippling common good worldwide, landmark study shows $427 billion lost each year to tax...

"A global tax system that loses over $427 billion a year is not a broken system, it's a system programmed to fail."

The Liberty Bell and the Democratic Party: A Tale of Two Fractures in Philadelphia

The Democratic Party has an enormous challenge now, to unify its members to defeat one of the most bigoted and divisive, some say fascistic, presidential candidates in modern U.S. history

Wall Street Banks on Buying the Democrats’ Love

Big money is threatening the Democratic party by saying that major campaign donations are dependent on “a friendlier attitude toward the banks.” This just shows what little respect banks actually have.

Democrats make a huge mistake if they just focus impeachment on the Ukraine scandal

As with Nixon, impeaching Trump requires a slow boil, not a stir-fry.

Relatable, reality president mortifies creepy, anti-reality pretend president

A genuine Biden more greatly contrasts the fake Trump than the slicker, more charming Obama or dull Dubya, the phony cowboy.