Building more roads, modernizing seaports, improving airports andtrain stations, and constructing power plants in the country whereconstruction is most expensive is a huge undertaking that many people fail to grasp. Made in America is harder than expected By Molson Hart [This article posted on April 24, 2025 is translated from …
Those who conform, go with the flow, and say little in opposition rise to the top. Those who are not yet sufficiently conformist are corrupted. A great deal of lobbying is carried out to bring members of parliament into line and make them vote the way they want them to. …
Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to contentUsing Gmail with screen readers 18 of 1,025 Quora on tariffs Inbox Marc Batko <marc1seed@gmail.com> 6:01 AM (6 hours ago) to me, Bill Mike Fink·Lives in Miami, Portland, Pittsburgh (1976–present)Apr 21Did Trump not have a clue that countries …
The President of the United States has set fire to the global tradingsystem and is now sitting back, seemingly calm in the face of theconflagration that has engulfed the global economy.Donald Trump’s actions show that he has not really understood how dangerous his attempt to change the world order is. …
Free market doctrine aims to liberate the economy from government “interference”, but Polanyi challenges the very idea that markets and governments are separate and autonomous entities. Government action is not some kind of “interference” in the autonomous sphere of economic activity; there simply is no economy without government rules and …
It is conceivable that capitalism 2.0 will conserve natural resources more than it has done in the centuries since the First Industrial Revolution, and that patriarchy will come to an end. As long as it continues to exist, however, the following will remain, even under these changed conditions: profit maximization, …
How the Media Walked us into Autocracy (w/ Ralph Nader) | The Chris Hedges ReportThe Chris Hedges YouTube Channel3/20 – 57 minhttps://youtu.be/oQZuzIzY8YQ?t=29
by Michael Hudson, 4/14/2025 Without restructuring the rentier financialized economy to move it back toward the original business plan of industrial capitalism,…his program will fail to re-industrialize America. Indeed, it threatens to push the U.S. economy into depression – for 90 percent of the population, that is. Trump’s Inverted View …
The international financial markets have already reacted: stock prices plunged worldwide, as did gas and oil prices – the latter despite an unchanged supply situation. The 15% decline within a few days indicates that the markets are expecting a decline in demand – in other words, a global recession. All …