With everything which has been going on in the world recently, from a terrifying heat dome emerging in North America to England making it to … Could a digital pound mean the end of banking as we know it?Read more
Economics
The Evolutionary Concept of Totality
Part 1 David Harvey. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eSOalxz-H0&rel=0&feature=relmfu] Part 2 David Harvey [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDCxz2Hb6vk&rel=0&feature=relmfu]
Techno-Feudalism Is Taking Over
This is how capitalism ends: not with a revolutionary bang, but with an evolutionary whimper. Just as it displaced feudalism gradually, surreptitiously, until one day … Techno-Feudalism Is Taking OverRead more
The Increasing Economic Value of Digital Capital
A firm’s financial statement comprises two distinct types of assets. Tangible assets are mostly physical in nature, and include vehicles, land, plants, equipment, and furniture, … The Increasing Economic Value of Digital CapitalRead more
At least 52 young workers perish in Bangladesh factory fire
In yet another shocking inferno, at least 52 mostly teenage workers died in a sweatshop factory, when a blaze engulfed a multi-storey food and beverage … At least 52 young workers perish in Bangladesh factory fireRead more
We must change material conditions in order to change ideas
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzQLi-ZnNLs&rel=0&feature=relmfu] David Harvey
The Elites Are Fighting a Vicious Class War All the Time
In 1967, Noam Chomsky emerged as a leading critic of the Vietnam War with a New York Review of Books essay critiquing US foreign policy’s … The Elites Are Fighting a Vicious Class War All the TimeRead more
GST: Failure over Four Years
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQHnfbMCM70&rel=0&feature=relmfu] 1. promise – with gst 2% gdp increase. 2015-16 – 8% 16-17 – 8.26 17-18 – gst started – 6.8 18-19 – 6.53 … GST: Failure over Four YearsRead more
World’s largest asset management firm and Fed’s Wall Street bailout
The close collaboration between the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the multi-billion dollar asset management firm Blackrock in devising the March 2020 rescue operation … World’s largest asset management firm and Fed’s Wall Street bailoutRead more
Wealth Hoarding by ‘Silver Spoon Oligarchs’ Is Endangering U.S. Democracy
The growing concentration of wealth in fewer hands—including among corporate robber barons’ descendants who continue, after multiple generations, to wield the “financial, political, and philanthropic … Wealth Hoarding by ‘Silver Spoon Oligarchs’ Is Endangering U.S. DemocracyRead more