Tag: economy
From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is history repeating itself?
It is time to fight for an economy and a democracy that works for all rather than the few.
Why does flying suck so much?
Companies get away with bad behavior when we accept their excuses that there’s just no other way to run a business.
Progressive groups unveil ‘Rural New Deal’ to ‘reverse decades of economic...
"Rebuilding and renewing supportive social and economic connections across rural and urban lines, empowering rural people and communities, moving away from extractive relationships of the past, is the course we must chart together."
Economic growth in G7 versus BRICS: a reality check
Like rose-colored glasses, anti-systemic glasses make economic problems appear less dangerous, narrower, and more limited in effects than they actually are.
300+ economists, millionaires, and elected officials to G20: ‘Tax extreme wealth’
While billionaire wealth surged to an all-time high, around 165 million people were thrown into poverty during the pandemic.
The moneyless economy is thriving in America
The free and shared goods economy is creating community resilience and alternatives to trash culture for millions of people.
Government watchdog cautions against further interest rate hikes for risk of...
Accountable.US warns further hikes "would needlessly and unnecessarily cause a recession and result in millions of Americans losing their jobs."
GOP’s ‘fiscal vandalism and political sabotage’ prompts second-ever US credit downgrade
"The debt ceiling was a bad idea when it was first put in place, and it has become the worst idea as the Republicans have figured out how to weaponize it."
Ignoring warnings of mass job loss, Fed hikes rates to highest...
"The Fed should end its rate hiking campaign for good."
Why capitalism is leaving the US, in search of profit
Ongoing controversies and alarms surround this capitalist exodus.
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DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure
On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.
The US bombs kids so Palmer Luckey can have nice things
Because for every bomb the U.S. and Israel drop, a bunch of men in cushy offices profit off all the death.
‘You can’t live without us’: How Big Oil pivoted from climate-friendly messaging to normalize...
More than 1,500 independent advertising agencies and 4,000 individual creatives have signed Clean Creatives’ pledge to refuse future fossil fuel contracts.
Oil regulators found hundreds of wells violating Oklahoma rules. Then they ignored their findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.
Thanks, MAGA, for exposing six corrosive myths that plague America—if we survive!
So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.