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The K-shaped world we live in
the top 20% are doing well, everyone else, not so good....
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October 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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A summary of my book Capitalism Revealed. My five-year project is nearing completion. The book explores the changes in capitalism over the past fifty years. Income and wealth inequality. Intensified and broadened insecurities for the bottom 90%.
A summary of the book Capitalism Revealed
all of the ideas and data boiled down to a brief series of posts......
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June 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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(from AmericanDelusions.com 11.23.2023)
Why are we spending $1.5 trillion on nuclear weapons?
The December 2023 issue of Scientific American contains three articles and an editorial about our nuclear weapons production, plans to spend tons of money “modernizing it”, and the envi…
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April 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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The Wonders of US Healthcare Continue
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April 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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In depth about the rich and corporations taking control of the US Supreme Court. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has been talking in detail about the capture of the court for several years. Here is his The...
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April 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Air Travel and Financialization
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Air Travel and Financialization
experiencing financialization while in the air
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April 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Beyond the Liz Cheney Brouhaha
Beyond the Liz Cheney Brouhaha
Look to the substance
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April 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Financialization and going off the rails with Norfolk Southern
Financialization and going off the rails with Norfolk Southern
a revisit with this 3.8.2023 post
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April 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Calling out the rich and corporations. I have spoken of the need to fight a class war against the rich and corporations who control our government and set the laws and regulations to benefit themselv...
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April 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Drop “democracy” from our rhetoric about America
The word democracy appears regularly in Americans’ discourse about our country.
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January 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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35 Years of Wage Stagnation and Middle-Class Life in the US – a concrete example – Uncovering Capitalism
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December 9, 2024 at 3:33 PM
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American Compass – their conservative economics get it right, mostly – Uncovering Capitalism
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December 9, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Drop “democracy” from our rhetoric about America
The word democracy appears regularly in Americans’ discourse about our country. We describe our government as democratic, and our political rhetoric is filled with notions of democracy about many a…
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December 9, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Trump and Deportations of Workers
Trump appears to be setting the stage to deport millions of immigrants. Leaving aside the obvious inhumanity of such a project, there is the question of who is going to do all of the work performed…
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November 18, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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35 Years of Wage Stagnation and Middle-Class Life in the US
For the period between the end of WWII and 1979 there was productivity growth of ~ 55%. That means that for an hour’s work the economic value has grown by 55%. Over that period workers’…
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November 18, 2024 at 10:44 PM
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Occupy Wall St was right….
In the fall of 2011, a large group of protestors occupied areas around Wall St. in NYC for six weeks under the banner of “We are the 99%” At the same time, there were protests around th…
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November 18, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Competitive Capitalism – long dead in the US
A key part of the description of capitalism in orthodox (neoclassical) economics, and our political rhetoric, is the role competition between companies plays in keeping the automatic self-regulatio…
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November 14, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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US School Shootings – trend line
With yet another school shooting yesterday 9.3.2024 in Georgia I found myself barely moved. The frequency of these events and the now ritualized sequelae have extinguished any other reaction. Here …
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November 13, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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A Little Positive Action in Maine on Election Day
Maine had a ballot question to limit political action committees (PACs) ability to influence elections for state offices. QUESTION 1: An Act to Limit Contributions to Political Action Committees Th…
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November 13, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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Book Review – Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divide by David Gibbs
Neoliberalism is the word most frequently used by commentators and academics when discussing the changes in the US economy over the past 50 years. For most people, this is a completely useless term…
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November 13, 2024 at 11:40 PM
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147,631,710 – what does this number say about our species?
That is the number of votes that Trump has received in the 2020 and 2024 Presidential elections. 73,407,735 in the most recent election and 74,223,975 in the 2020 election. Even assuming that there…
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November 13, 2024 at 1:57 PM