Ellen Brown / TruthdigJan 8, 2020
Its forced choice to bankroll hedge funds and other speculative ventures in repo market comes at a price to the middle class. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
By Jennifer Kaplan / BloombergJun 1, 2017
For cannabis financiers, the industry's growth potential outshines the political risk. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 3, 2017
Lewis Wallace had a successful career on American Public Media’s “Marketplace” until he blogged about the meaning of journalistic neutrality. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 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. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Henry A. Giroux / CounterPunchOct 6, 2016
What happens when the spheres of morality and spirituality give way to a savage market rationality? Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 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. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 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.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Valerie Brown / Climate News NetworkDec 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." Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigDec 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.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Paul Brown / Climate News NetworkNov 11, 2015
New and cheaper ways to exploit free energy from wind and tidal power are being floated for countries with deep seas off their coasts. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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