‘The Price of Everything’ Confronts an Art World Awash With Cash

Jordan Riefe / Truthdig Oct 22, 2018 Filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn and a "Guerrilla Girl" contemplate cultural representation amid scorched-earth capitalism, as artists like Jeff Koons (pictured) make bank in a speculative art market. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

American History for Truthdiggers: Flowering or Excess of Democracy? (The 1780s)

Maj. Danny Sjursen / Truthdig Apr 21, 2018 What lessons did the founding generation take from the American Revolution, and why do we forget the early republican experiments? Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )

Fiction, Fantasy and the Euro

William Pfaff / Truthdig Dec 7, 2011 The extent to which the economic policy of nations is made on the basis of misinformation or wishful thinking is not generally recognized. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Bernie Sanders Goes After the Oil Industry

Staff / Truthdig Jun 17, 2011 Our favorite senator has had enough of "Wall Street speculators" jacking up oil prices. Here he tells radio host Ian Masters about his legislative attack plan. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.S. Colleges Get In on African Land Grabs

Staff / Truthdig Jun 9, 2011 American universities are reportedly using endowment funds to buy and lease vast tracts of African farmland, often for piddling prices, in deals that will reward foreign investors handsomely while separating tens of thousands from their homes and farms and providing little or none of the economic benefits promised them, California researchers say. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Is Rampant Speculation Driving Up the Price of Oil?

Staff / Truthdig Apr 29, 2011 It seems everyone's got a pet theory about why the price of oil has jumped roughly 30 percent since the start of the year Right- wingers blame a conspiracy hatched by President Barack Obama to strangle domestic oil production and push his "radical" green agenda on an unsuspecting America (more). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Speculators Song and Dance

Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News Apr 26, 2011 Dig deeper

Bracing for a New Food Crisis

Staff / Truthdig Sep 25, 2010 The U.N. is warning that the world may be on the cusp of a new major food crisis as the result of a wave of recent environmental disasters (heat waves, floods, wildfires) and capitalist disasters (market speculation, inflation) that are pushing up the price of foodstuffs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Speculators [A cartoon from Austria]

Petar Pismestrovic, Kleine Zeitung, Austria May 17, 2010 Dig deeper

Banks Gamble With Almost-Free Money

Staff / Truthdig Nov 25, 2009 The Fed has been lending money at record-low rates, but instead of passing on the cash to businesses and consumers, big banks are rolling the dice in the financial markets China and Japan have warned that these American high jinks could once again upend (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Withdrawal From Iraq? Not With All These Shiny U.S. Bases…

Staff / Truthdig Feb 24, 2006 TomDispatch warns that the presence of American "super bases" in Iraq belies the idea that the U.S. will pull out of the country any time soon. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )