Google celebrates its 25th birthday. Should we light a candle too?
Google turns 25 today. It has a surprisingly benign public image. Google describes its mission as: “Our mission is to organize the world’s information and […]
Economy
Video Post – the $47 Trillion Rip Off
A video version of the earlier post, “$47 Trillion – the ripoff by the rich and corporations – in two charts – maybe a few […]
A thought for the day while looking around in TikTok
The other day I was poking around in TikTok to see what it is all about. Came across a quote from Karl Marx that struck […]
$47 Trillion – the ripoff by the rich and corporations – in two charts – maybe a few more…..
I was already 31 years old when the rip-off of America began in 1979. I was busy, and the changes in American life were only […]
What is $47 trillion – 47,000,000,000,000 – a comparative exploration?
My previous post, “$47 Trillion – the ripoff by the rich and corporations – in two charts – maybe a few more…..” raises the question […]
The Waterworks of Money – how money and the financial sector work
By chance, I saw an exhibition titled “The Future of Money” (thru 9.9.2023) at the Art Museum of The Hague, Netherlands in May 2023. […]
The Glory of Our Food – on the back of farm workers – more from John Oliver
Only the oldest amongst my readers will remember Edward R. Murrow’s 1960 CBS TV report Harvest of Shame (opens CBS channel on YouTube) that reported on […]
Wealth & Poverty course from Robert Reich – UC Berkeley
Reich is offering an online course, “Wealth & Poverty”, that started today. I watched the first lecture, “What Happened to Income and Wealth?” Looks like […]
Private Equity, Housing, and the Extraction Economy
In the last couple of years articles have begun to appear with titles like: When Private Equity Becomes Your Landlord Where Have All the Houses […]
Computer Chips, Taiwan, Biden & China
China spends more on importing computer chips – $260 billion in 2017 – than it does importing oil. President Biden’s recent bans on the export […]