Category: Globalization
How Corporate America Cashed in on the Post-9/11 Pentagon Spending Surge
Laura Jedeed: YIMBY Movement Is Not the Answer to Housing Crisis, Grassroots Activists Say“Housing has become an investment for global financial actors, and has more in common with the stock market than it does with shoes.”
Alex Lawson: We’re Going to Take on Big Pharma and WinAny politician who puts Pharma profits before the needs of their constituents will lose their jobs. And they will deserve it
Laura Jedeed: Corporate Property-Buying Spree May Make Housing Even Less AffordableIs it true that only the elimination of eviction moratoria can help these landlords? Under analysis, most of their arguments in favor of resuming evictions fall apart
Rod Driver: The Crimes of the Pharmaceutical IndustryThe mainstream media rarely challenge the patent system, or discuss the scale of fraud by the industry, or explain that medicines could be researched and produced far more cheaply by other means
Congress should pay for infrastructure and other investments in a way that lifts up workers and reduces democracy-distorting wealth inequality
Why are executives in Corporate America now averaging 23 hours a week in formal meetings, up from fewer than 10 hours in the 1960s?
Davarian L. Baldwin: The Rise of the UniverCityUniversities increasingly wield the kind of power and influence that were hallmarks of ruthless employers in isolated company towns. Historian Davarian Baldwin calls this ominous trend the “rise of the UniverCity.”
After averaging 750,000 jobs over the preceding three months, from May to July 2021, job recovery this past August fell by more than two-thirds, to only 235,000
Michael Hudson: George Soros dreams of turning China into a neoliberal grabitization opportunityGeorge Soros is obviously upset that President Xi is not Boris Yeltsin, and that China is not following the kleptocracy dependency that warped Russia’s economy