- 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: October 2017
The Welfare State in Crisis by Philipp Kramp
The Welfare State in Crisis by Philipp Kramp, Grin.com, 2012 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2017/10/435189.shtml Since 2008, the world has held its breath through the financial crisis, the economic crisis, and the euro crisis. The crisis was the defining political theme. “No one should … Continue reading
Changing Consciousness: New Paradigms Needed!
Unlike a chair, an idea can be shared by a whole people! How exciting to be living in a time crying for alternative economics, reduced working hours, shriveling the financial sector, expanding the public sector, becoming cloud- workers, translators, editors, … Continue reading
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Trump is More than “Silly Tricks”
Trump is More than “Silly Tricks” by Daniel Tanuro, March 1, 2017 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/10/18/18803696.php Trump will run the US as a big business. Trump did not come out of nowhere. Trumpism is an expression of a reactionary revolt of the petty-bourgeois … Continue reading
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The Democrats must draft an alternative tax bill!
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/10/05/lets-talk-about-what-we-really-want-tax-reform Do we live in the Humpty Dumpty world – where words mean what he says they mean? The Republican $4.2 trillion tax bill is sadism, greed, and chaos. Trillions are cut from Medicaid and Medicare; savage cuts are made … Continue reading
The Fairy-tale of the End of the Financial Crisis by David Stein
The Fairy-tale of the End of the Financial Crisis by David Stein, June 1, 2017 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/10/09/18803518.php Between 2008 and 2010, the EU Commission approved state aid of 4.3 trillion euros. The potential crisis of the global economy has grown and … Continue reading
State Indebtedness as a Power Strategy by Mohssen Massarrat
State Indebtedness as a Power Strategy by Mohssen Massarrat 9/27/2017 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/10/04/18803447.php Contracting debts exploded under neoliberalism since the 1980s – unlike the state debts in the Keynesian era from the 1950s to the 1970s – and produced a structural debt … Continue reading
Alternative Economics and Philosophical Reflections
I’m in a great euphoria with two books available from Amazon Kindle in 72 hours. You can order the two eBooks “Philosophical Reflections on the Economic Crisis” ($3.99) and “Alternative Economics: Reversing Stagnation” ($3.99) from amazon.com. You can download their … Continue reading
Facing a Possible State of Emergency by Peter Schaar
Facing a Possible State of Emergency by Peter Schaar, 9/27/2017 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/10/02/18803386.php The danger of authoritarian “solutions” grows when the constitutional state is dismantled, undermined or suspended.” This warning was made by the former data protectionist Peter Schaar who published the … Continue reading
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