https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/17/18881569.php Increasingly erratic Trump behavior, particularly his tariff whiplashes, confirmed the worst fears that Trump would be wildly unpredictable, and was also tearing down institutions and norms that somewhat curbed the raw exercise of power. His tariffs, no matter how he implements them, will lower GDP and increase inflation on …
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1662-6370.2011.02028.x Post-growth society—Concepts for the future Werner Spillmann [This article first published on September 5, 2011 is available on the Internet, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1662-6370.2011.02028.x.] Post-Growth Society—Concepts for the Future Irmi Seidl, Angelika Zahrnt (eds.) Marburg: Metropolis Verlag (2010), 247 pp., ISBN 978-3-89518-811-4 In the foreword, editors Irmi Seidl and Angelika Zahrnt point …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/03/16/18770012.php Unlike a chair, an idea can be shared by a whole people. Words can be like spears breaking the frozen soul (Kafka). Economics as taught today is like brainwashing. Incentives for investing in the real economy are necessary after the phase of credit-bubble prosperity, after the inflation of the …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/16/18881530.php Economism likes to play the card that there can only be “the market” or no market. That is the real fall from grace of economics. Any idea of moderation and relativization is absent in economism. It is so simple: the market must be embedded in social meaning and fairness. …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/13/18881445.php For Perlstein and Sharlet, it is no coincidence that the New York Times continues to refuse to label Trump a fascist. The idea that fascism does not exist in the US is widespread. Sharlet: “Many people make the mistake of saying, ‘But this doesn’t look like European fascism in …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/12/18881423.php According to Milley, Trump is a “fascist through and through.” And John F. Kelly, Secretary of Homeland Security and later White House Chief of Staff during Trump’s first presidency, believes that “Trump fits the definition of a fascist exactly.” Fascist characteristics of the Trump regime Jürg Müller-Muralt [This article …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/10/18881357.php Today’s right-wing extremists, however, love disasters. In a world where disasters are not exactly rare, they are eager to invent all kinds of conspiracies and afflictions: from the “Great Replacement” and “genocide of white people,” in which migrants will allegedly eliminate the white majority populations in Europe and the …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/09/18881348.php If we are to win the argument with the libertarians, we need to take back effective government. Friedman was wrong to argue that the cure for market failure is more market. However, the cure for weak or corrupted democracy has to be more democracy. The only way to redeem …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/03/18881209.php What our elites are trying to make us believe is pure mockery — but anyone who dares to point this out clearly must face accusations of mocking the state. Our author would rather read a Donald Duck comic. What he sees there is at least an honest fake and …
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/11/05/18881261.php In the neoliberal regime, people are forced to see themselves as entrepreneurs of their labor in order to always be able to meet the imperatives of the market, with the goal of “self-determinedly” submitting to the capitalist exploitation process and its constraints. In Western democracies, such self-enslavement is understood …