It has been almost half a century since the Women’s Strike for Equality March. Forty-seven years ago, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New … Happy Women’s Equality Day. Now Let’s Get to WorkRead more
Economics
Booming Market
— source truthdig.com by Mr. Fish 2017-11-07
Capital is making the city and it’s making it in its own image
David Harvey talking: The right to the city argument was partly connected to the fact that a right to the city movement developed in the … Capital is making the city and it’s making it in its own imageRead more
US Spends $250 Million per Day for the War on Terror
The Department of Defense has spent more than $1.46 trillion for direct war-related costs since September 11, 2001, according to the latest Pentagon tabulation of … US Spends $250 Million per Day for the War on TerrorRead more
How to Use Fiscal and Monetary Policy to Make Us Rich Again
During the post war Golden Age, from 1950 to 1973, US median real wages more than doubled. Today, they are lower than they were when … How to Use Fiscal and Monetary Policy to Make Us Rich AgainRead more
How FDR and Keynes Ended the Depression
Eric Rauchway — source whomakescentspodcast.com
Putting an End to the Rent Economy
Interview with Vlado Plaga in the German magazine FAIRCONOMY, September 2017. Originally, you didn’t want to become an economist. How did it come that you … Putting an End to the Rent EconomyRead more
Global monetary policy, big banks & geo-politics in the Trump era
The following is the transcript from my speech: Shifting US-Japan Geo-Politics, Banking Landscape and Financial Regulations in the Trump Era. It was given on July … Global monetary policy, big banks & geo-politics in the Trump eraRead more
Wealth is desirable but not at the price of treason
Richard Wolff On Contact 007
85% of MPs don’t know where money comes from
Only 15% of MPs were aware that new money is created when banks make loans, and existing money is destroyed when members of the public … 85% of MPs don’t know where money comes fromRead more