What’s Crypto Good For? Corruption, Exploitation, and Billions for Insiders
As with the subprime lending crisis, crypto appears to be more of an example of predatory inclusion than enhancing financial access.
Issue 240
8 articles
Organizing after September 11
I hear people saying everything is different now, but I see that there is a lot that is not so different. --Gabriel Sayegh, Prisoner Within
Industry Attacks on Dissent: From Rachel Carson to Oprah
Forty years after the publication of Silent Spring, corporations are still producing poisons--and still trying to keep critics from fighting back.
Balancing State Budgets: Who Will Pay?
How can states solve their fiscal dilemmas? By shifting the tax burden onto the well-to-do.
The Surplus Vanished
President Bush claims that war and recession wiped out the projected federal budget surplus, but his massive tax giveaway to the wealthy deserves the bulk of the blame.
Dear Dr. Dollar:
The Federal Reserve keeps fussing with the “discount rate” and everybody thinks it’s important. This is, if I understand it right, the rate banks charge each other for overnight loans. Now presumably someone makes money on the interest that’s charged and someone loses money (or makes less) when the
Primer
This the seventh in a series of comics about economic globalization and neoliberalism by Nick Thorkelson. To see the rest
How States Are Spending Their Welfare Money—Or Not
Not only have states diminished their support for cash assistance, but other resources for poor people are drying up too.