Tag: U.S. Economy
Fracking in 2018: Another year of pretending to make money
Instead, the fracking industry has helped set new records for U.S. oil production while continuing to lose huge amounts of money – and that was before the recent crash in oil prices.
Watch your wallets
The underlying problem isn’t that Americans have been living beyond their means. It’s that their means haven’t been keeping up with the growing economy. Most gains have gone to the top.
How to hold corporations accountable
It’s time to demand that the economic system work for all of us.
Are you ready for an epoch fail?
The only way to address this ultimate threat is through the sort of international cooperation that the anti-globalists fear the most, a linking of arms across the rising seas to defeat a malign global force and the powerful elite that maintains it.
Wall Street, banks, and angry citizens
The inequality gap on a planet growing more extreme.
China tariffs are a regressive tax on Americans, and risk a...
The middle class and poor pay a larger percentage of their incomes on these tariffs than do the rich.
An historic opportunity to transform trade when we stop NAFTA II
We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.
Trump’s trade Czar, the latest architect of imperial disaster
No matter how deeply flawed such geopolitical visions may ultimately prove to be, their brief moments as official policy have regularly shaped the destiny of nations and of empires in unpredictable, unplanned, and often dangerous ways.
Facts that privileged Americans don’t want us to know
The following facts should have been reported by the mainstream media, but unfortunately most of that media is controlled by the very people who have reason to hide the facts.
New study details ‘staggering’ $6 trillion (and counting) price tag of...
"In sum, high costs in war and war-related spending pose a national security concern because they are unsustainable."
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The dark side of Trump’s moon
A new book sheds light on the "intellectual" underpinnings of the Trump revolution.
‘Domestic terrorism’: Leaked DOJ memo targets ‘anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, anti-Christianity’
The memo was obtained by independent investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein, who joins us to discuss how it expands on President Donald Trump’s NSPM-7 directive.
‘An abject failure’: Economists trash Trump’s disastrous job creation record in year-end reviews
“The jobs aren’t coming back, the wages aren’t rising,” one economist said.
Fed up with toxic snake pits? Find solace and timeless vistas from geology, cosmology...
It ain’t over ‘til it's over, and the better angels of our nature are most readily accessible through great literature and art, great science, and expert history that dispels truthiness and lies.
Trump plan to dismantle US weather research hub alarms scientists and state officials
A proposal by the Trump administration to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research has sparked warnings from scientists, university leaders, and Colorado officials who say the move could undermine public safety, economic stability, and decades of shared scientific infrastructure.