Expanding on Robert Reich’s Pledges for Democrats – there’s a lot to like, but we can improve on it
Reich published What Democrats Must Pledge to America – Ten ways to make America more affordable on 12.5.2025. Here are the bold titles for the […]
Economy
The Extraction Economy – Private Equity in Action
Elizabeth Warren on private equity predators Private equity(PE) firms are the pinnacle of the great shift in the American economy over the past 50 years […]
The K-shaped world we live in – the top 20% are doing well, everyone else, not so good….
My research into the enormous explosion of wealth and income inequality in the US over the past fifty years be summarized as the $79 trillion […]
Why taxing the rich & corporations is not the only step we need to take – reversing the top-down class warfare
Many on the left are calling for increasing taxes on the rich and corporations to fund the government while reducing the burden on most Americans. […]
Abundance by Klein and Thompson – a book review
I read Abundance as part of my participation in the Hudson Area Library’s Nonfiction Book Group. Abundance offers many telling comments about our situation. In […]
What’s a Billion Dollars Look Like?
These big numbers a way beyond counting on your fingers – try a trillion With the surge in the number of billionaires around the world […]
David Brooks on nurturing human capital in poor people
What might he say about our billionaire class “As a society, we are pretty good at transferring money to the poor, but we’re not very […]
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 […]
Food Deserts from 99% Invisible
a great introduction to the monopolization of the US economy A key phenomenon of the past fifty years has been the explosion in the monopoly […]
Anonymity, AI, and the Internet
Maintaining social discipline Over our species’ history, we have lived in small groups for roughly 290,000 years, with only the last 10,000 years in mass-scale […]