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The Fed Protects Gamblers at the Expense of the Economy
Jan 8, 2020 Its forced choice to bankroll hedge funds and other speculative ventures in repo market comes at a price to the middle class.
Trump Casts Cloud Over Cannabis, but Money Keeps Pouring In
Jun 1, 2017 For cannabis financiers, the industry's growth potential outshines the political risk.
Fired ‘Marketplace’ Reporter Wonders: Is Objective Journalism Dead?
Mar 10, 2017 Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer interviews Lewis Wallace (pictured), who was fired from the American Public Media show for questioning objective reporting under Trump.
Journalist Is Fired From Public Radio Show for Questioning Objective Reporting Under Trump
Feb 3, 2017 Lewis Wallace had a successful career on American Public Media’s “Marketplace” until he blogged about the meaning of journalistic neutrality.
The Nobel Prize in Economics Is a Force for Market Fundamentalism
Oct 10, 2016 The honor dignifies those who advocate surrendering the public’s power to ensure the common welfare and legitimizes the destruction such policies create, writes Avner Offer, economic historian at Oxford and co-author of a new book on the award.
Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance
Oct 6, 2016 What happens when the spheres of morality and spirituality give way to a savage market rationality?
Thomas Piketty: Bernie Sanders Heralds a New Era in American Politics
Feb 17, 2016 “In many respects, we are witnessing the end of the politico-ideological cycle opened by the victory of Ronald Reagan at the 1980 elections,” writes French economist Thomas Piketty, whose 2014 book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” made inequality a respectable topic of conversation among professionals and beltway pundits.
The Economy in 2016: Buying Time Before All the Old Problems Resurface
Dec 28, 2015 What’s in store for the world economically in the new year? While he cautions against predictions, Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott projects that “there will be no explosion in 2016, but a fuse will be lit.”
Markets Cannot Solve the Climate Crisis
Dec 28, 2015 “Free range” capitalism is one of the causes of climate change, and it must be reformed if we are to solve the crisis, Andreas Malm writes in his new book, "Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming."
The Problem With Markets: A Holiday Tale
Dec 27, 2015 “Like all human institutions, markets have strengths and weaknesses,” writes economist Richard Wolff. Exalting them as if they were some ideal mechanism for distributing resources "should be rejected as the self-serving tool of societies' richest operated at the expense of everyone else.”
