A Plugged Up Kitchen Sink and Insecurity in American Life
A tale of almost $400 Our kitchen sink stopped draining the other day. My amateur snaking did nothing. Today, a plumber arrived with a […]
Economy
David Brooks misses the long view
“Can We Please Stop Lying About Obama?” The indefatigable conservative columnist for the NY Times, David Brooks, has authored a strange and flawed essay, “Can […]
A “Decent” Federal Budget?
Paul Krugman, “What a Decent Budget Would Look Like” Paul Krugman’s recent post, “What a Decent Budget Would Look Like – Imagining a Congress that […]
Price Gouging and Research Costs in the Pharmaceutical Industry ERALD KOLASI
https://technodynamics.substack.com/p/price-gouging-and-research-costs Excellent piece. See this iconic examination: Lazonick, William, Matt Hopkins, Matthew Frye Jacobson, Mustafa Sakinc, and Oner Tulum. “US Pharma’s Financialized Business Model.” Institute […]
More Fire Engines and Monopolies
a follow up to my 2.24.2025 post on this topic Reuters is reporting that the International Association of Fire Fighters is asking the Dept. of […]
“Neoliberal economics is based on absurd assumptions and fantasies”
a brief but compelling presentation – starts with a critique of neoclassical economics This 14-minute video by Richard Murphy, Emeritus Professor of Accounting Practice at […]
The Rich Control Congress
Evidence from OpenSecrets.org A new report from OpenSecrets.org, “Outside money, inside influence: How national donors shaped the 2024 congressional elections,” demonstrates that the rich are […]
How to end the financialization of corporations
ending the tsunami of money into the hands of the rich As I have noted many times here, the financialization of corporations, that is the […]
Extraction Capitalism – the latest phase
a more descriptive name than neoliberal capitalism There is no single entity called “capitalism”. Such a concept exists only as an academic construct (see orthodox […]
Are conservatives changing their minds about fundamental principles?
Jon Stewart and Oren Cass from American Compass American Compass is the self-described home of conservative economics. It describes its mission as: To restore an […]