Tag: economy
Labor Day 2028
By 2028 will technology replace all work, leaving no one worried about making money? If John Maynard Keynes' prediction is right, we must learn how to redistribute the profits from these labor-saving inventions—and fast.
The Stock Market Is Getting Harder to Rig
The U.S. economy is in sad shape. Yet, corporate media tries to explain the recent stock market decline, which erased $2.1 trillion in the market value of stocks and in the pockets of Americans’ retirement savings, so logically.
VIDEO: 'Casino Capitalism: Economist Michael Hudson on What’s Behind the Stock...
While Americans watched stock prices tumble across the globe in Monday’s market turmoil, economist Michael Hudson joins Democracy Now to help make sense of what’s really behind the fluctuations in the market.
How the Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund Helps to Preserve Land...
The CPF on Long Island—based on a buyer-paid two-percent real estate transfer tax—has been adopted in places like Nantucket to help with the preservation of land. Here is how the program dedicated to acquiring and preserving land has worked.
CEOs Call for Wage Increases for Workers! What’s the Catch?
The powerful peers of the corporate plutocracy are frightened by wealth inequality happening in America. While many are looking to fix it, their concern is not driven by moral outrage at the injustice, but rather by self-interest.
VIDEO: In Victory for Corporations, Court Rejects Rule on Labeling Goods...
One of the deadliest documented conflict in African history is the fight over precious minerals. While many activist groups want mandatory labeling of "conflict minerals," a federal appeals court ruled against it this week.
The Upsurge in Uncertain Work
In this “irregular” economy, the result is the same: no predictable earnings or hours. But could the majority of the American labor force become fungible, sought only for reliability and low cost?
The Evidence Keeps Pouring In: Capitalism Just Isn’t Working
Everything is a potential market to the capitalist, but it's time to end the suffering of ordinary Americans, which is very good for the profit margins, and make human life a top concern.
Super-Rich Donors Turn Our Democracy into Their Plutocracy
There are a few "treacherous" donors who are using wads of cash to pervert American democracy into plutocracy. So who are they trying to buy favors for?
Co-Branding America’s Wonders
The leaders of our country have been “aligning the economic and historical legacies” of parks with advertisers. Have our leaders turned the National Park Service into just another corporate cash cow?