Farmers Are Going Broke Amid Rising Gas Prices
Georgina Gustin, Portside. While the Ag Secretary Profits off Them. A new report finds that Trump is making millions off of his oil and gas stocks. His administration officials likely…
Game Changers: How to Build the Economy We Deserve
Gerald EpsteinJuliet SchorJames K. BoyceManuel Pastor Common Dreams Editor’s Note: The following is part of new series for Common Dreams based on “Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America,”…
Trump Terrified Of Impact On Midterms Of $6 / Gal. Diesel As His War Spirals Out Of Control
Juan Cole Informed Comment President Trump on Sunday warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to stop striking at Russian diesel refineries. While these Ukrainian strikes have had an impact on global…
Oil Prices Soar to New Heights as Houthis Seize Yemen’s Red Sea Coastline
By Sharon Zhang This article was originally published by Truthout A top economist estimated that Trump’s Iran war has already cost the average American household an extra $1,650. Houthi forces…
The Sovereign Reset: Escaping the Interest Trap with Greenbacks
Ellen Brown In August 2026, the U.S. debt reached a gravity-defying $40 trillion, with an estimated fiscal year 2026 deficit of $2.1 trillion. Interest on the debt hit a record…
The Long Goodbye To The US Dollar
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. The dollar may appear to be a neutral currency, yet it is in fact a form of imperial power. Disciplining economies, financing war,…
AI Abundance, Part 4:
THE CLARITY ACT AND THE STABLECOIN WARS Ellen Brown As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving…
Alan Greenspan’s Mixed Legacy
Dean Baker Substack I was not an Alan Greenspan fan, but I will give him some serious credit on his passing. I’ll also give him serious blame for missing two…
The Man Who Mistook Greed for Wisdom Alan Greenspan and the Rise of the Global Casino Economy
Joshua Scheer As the world reflects on the life and legacy of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, economist Yanis Varoufakis offers a reminder that the debate Greenspan helped shape…
Over 160 Years After Abolition, Racism Still Structures US Economy
C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout. An analysis of the formation of US anti-Black racism. More than 400 years have passed since the first white colonists arrived in North America to establish a…
How We Got Here, Part 4: The Framework Solved in Code
From Madison’s Failure to Bitcoin’s Challenge to State Power In the concluding installment of his four-part ScheerPost series How We Got Here, Jeffery Wernick brings together the constitutional, monetary, and…
AI ABUNDANCE, PART 3: GOVERNMENT MONEY WITHOUT STRINGS ATTACHED
Project Hamilton, ECASH, and the Quest for a Privacy-Protected Digital Dollar Ellen Brown The first two articles in this series explored the proposition that artificial intelligence and robotics will soon…
Sachs on U.S. Power in Freefall: “The Most Dangerous Country in the World”
The global economy is no longer wobbling — it’s splintering. In a sweeping, unsparing conversation, economist Jeffrey Sachs describes a world pushed to the edge by Washington’s wars with Iran…
The Hidden Tax: How a Falling Dollar Is Quietly Draining Working Americans While Corporations Cash In
Joshua Scheer A slow bleed is underway—and most Americans are being told not to notice. As the U.S. dollar weakens, prices are creeping higher across everyday life: groceries, travel, fuel,…