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Intel and Financialization – harvesting money brings loss of focus on products….
Intel is in the news these days because it’s stumbling and Trump efforts to make our government a shareholder. Professor Bill Lazonick spoke about financialization […]
“Antitrust’s Conservative Future Confronting the tyranny of concentrated economic power”
an interesting view of monopolization from a member of the Federal Trade Commission, Mark Meador, FTC Commissioner Monopoly power has been a dominating force in […]
Financialization and going off the rails with Norfolk Southern
Financialization is an awful word. It sounds clumsy in the mouth and refers to a process that has been underway for over 40 years but […]
Not a right – left problem; a top – down problem. The class war is long over.
In the wake of Trump’s victory over Harris there has been much hand-wringing over how to explain the obvious trend among Americans to favor Republicans. […]
Thoughts on ending billionaire wealth – “Every billionaire is a policy failure”
The tsunami of billionaires that has washed across the planet over the last decade or so is troubling in the extreme. Now, we have the […]
American Compass – their conservative economics get it right, mostly
American Compass is a self-described think tank for conservative economics. From its Mission Statement page: “We are developing the conservative economic agenda to supplant blind […]
Wealth Concentration and the Environment – a new concern
Much is made here and elsewhere of the extreme concentration of wealth in the top 1% of the world’s population (63 million people) and perhaps […]
Revised Introduction
The introduction to the book has been substantially revised to make it clear that the book is examining the changes in American life over the […]
Update: Steward Healthcare System in bankruptcy
Uncovering Capitalism – the actual Workings (forthcoming) includes a brief case study of the impacts of private equity strategies on this hospital chain, “A Brief […]