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 […]
Capitalism
“What Led To The Rise Of Billionaires? – OpEd”
an introduction to the global policies supporting billionairification “What Led To The Rise Of Billionaires? – OpEd” in the Eurasia Review (3.23.2025) by Bhabani Shankar […]
Eliminate Advertising
I came across this provocative essay via Peter Spear’s That Business of Meaning on Substack. This takes my criticism of marketing and advertising to one […]
Financialization and going off the rails with Norfolk Southern
a revisit with this 3.8.2023 post From Production to Extraction The financialization of corporations is one of the most important developments in capitalism over the […]
Centi-millionaires: the plague of big numbers – millions, billions, trillions.
The Forbes billionaires list in 2019 counted 607 billionaires in the US. By April 2024, this number had grown by 34 percent to 813. In […]
“The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” – more about tech billionaire ideology
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto by Marc Andreessenis a 2023 statement of a libertarian-technology-centric view of the world. This manifesto is primarily based on a faith-based understanding […]
Air Travel and Financialization
Financialization can seem an abstraction too far. The sheer length of the word suggests an academic boondoggle is at hand. But anyone who has taken […]
Three Plagues On Our Species – Nation States, Religion, & Capitalism
Responding to Global Warming and the Pillaging of the Earth Viewed from the perspective of the looming disaster of global warming accompanied by the exhaustion […]
A Different View of Krugman’s Data
Paul Krugman wrote a recent post, Is the Sleeping Giant Awakening about the EU. It inlcuded this chart showing the relative sizes of the economies […]