- Break away from conventional trickle-down economics.
A future-friendly economics is necessary, and possible.Poverty is man-made, and not inevitable.
Produced by a myopic worldview, there is an alternative.
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Casino Capitalism and Profit Maximization
Casino Capitalism and Profit Maximization by Gunter Grzega and Myth: Public Services Sector is More Inefficient by Sven Hergovicth https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/11/25/18780329.php In the 1960s the average holding time for stocks was 10 years. Now the holding time is not 9 months … Continue reading
VIDEO: What “Orwellian” Really Means
VIDEO: What “Orwellian” Really Means by Noah Tavlin, Oct 5, 2014 http://www.openculture.com/2015/10/what-orwellian-really-means-an-animated-lesson-about-the-use-abuse-of-the-term.html https://youtu.be/oe64p-QzhNE?t=331 In all of our minds, the word “Orwellian” conjures up a certain kind of setting: a vast, fixed bureaucracy; a dead-eyed public forced into gray, uniform living … Continue reading
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Economic Crises as Sicknesses and Catastrophes
to read the articles by Stephan Puehringer, Matthias Schnetzer and Patrick Schreiner, click on http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2015/11/431012.shtml The 2008 financial crisis is often wrongly described as a “state debt crisis” where cause and effect are inverted and economists and the market are … Continue reading
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Capitalism is the Problem
to read the articles by Ferdinand Scholz and Matthias Kiefer, October 2015, click on http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2015/11/430942.shtml Today’s prosperity in large part is based on the ecological and social exploitation of poor countries in Africa and Asia. Today 20 percent of humanity … Continue reading
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Memorandum 2015 by the Alternative Economic Policy study group
Memorandum 2015 by the Alternative Economic Policy study group in Bremen, Germany http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2015/11/430890.shtml For 40 years, the Alternative Economic Policy study group has published memorandums. The council of experts promoted the profits of businesses, not aggregate economic demand. Public net … Continue reading