We Can’t Wait New Orleans was one of the only groups in the US to hold a rally demanding real economic relief. Here is a video of a discussion they organized around […]
Discussion with We Can’t Wait New Orleans on Biden Covid Relief Plan
The Next Two Years? If You Think You Know, Then You REALLY Don’t Know!
Although things are very much in flux, the dim outlines for the next two years are starting to emerge from the mist. Executive Orders Whatever the reason, Biden’s Covid relief proposal goes a […]
Biden’s Covid Relief Plan: Not Just Neoliberal “Austerity”
Senator Everett Dirkson once said “You take a billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you come up with serious money.” So, what in the world has come over Joe Biden? […]
President Joe Biden: “The Dog that Caught the Car”
The coming removal of Bigot-in-Chief DonaldTrump from the White House was met with dancing in the street across the country. Rightfully so. However, we should also keep this exchange in mind: “You’re […]
Defend, expand $600 federal unemployment subsidy
It is past time for a movement in the streets to demand the continuation and in fact the expansion of the $600/week federal unemployment subsidy! The US economy in free fall, declining […]
Economic train wreck coming
A short note on the Covid-19 economy: If you think things are bad now, you ain’t seen nothing yet. While there was a slight pickup in May, which continued into June to […]
Trump headed for a crash?
What do we make of Trump’s claim that he was never briefed on the US intelligence belief that Putin’s government had placed a bounty on the heads of US soldiers in Afghanistan? […]
Coronavirus bailout, inflation and Karl Marx
I’ve been trying to think through the issue of inflation in light of the $2 trillion Coronavirus bailout and its affects on inflation. A large chunk of the bailout will be going […]
Coronavirus and the $2 trillion plus bailout
The $2 trillion bailout bill rushed through congress won’t be the last one. In fact, it wasn’t the first when we take into account the 2008 bailouts. It is different in that […]
Will the dollar collapse?
I’ve been saying that inflation was coming here for many years. That was because the dollar supply (M1 or M2) had vastly increased vs. the US GDP – in other words, more […]