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,…
Is Another Financial Crisis Brewing In The US Economy?
By Ben Norton, Geopolitical Economy. Economist Michael Hudson explains the dangers. Reports suggest the US economy may be on the verge of another financial crisis, with major problems in the…
‘Disgusting’: Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Brags About Killing 300,000 ‘High-Paying’ American Jobs
Stephen Prager for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser boasted on Fox Business Thursday that the government had slashed more than 300,000 “high-paying” jobs from the federal payroll…
All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame
Ellen Brown ScheerPost“The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the…
$20K Drones vs $4M Missiles — Norton Explains Why the U.S. Is Losing the War It Started
ScheerPost Staff Journalist Ben Norton lays out the brutal logic of Iran’s asymmetric counteroffensive — and the global economic catastrophe it’s already unleashing. As Norton explains, Tehran has closed the…
‘The Situation Is Scary’: Global Economic Chaos as Trump’s Iran War Sends Markets Diving
Brad Reed for Common Dreams President Donald Trump’s unprovoked and unconstitutional war against Iran is sending shockwaves across the global economy in the form of skyrocketing oil prices and diving…