The Global South Is on the Brink of a Disastrous Debt Crisis. Reform Is Urgent
The coming debt crisis will surpass that of the 1980s and disproportionately impact women, economist Ilene Grabel warns.
Health Insurance Killing: Economics Does Have Something to Say
United and other insurers make a profit by restricting the claims they pay, so their profit motive goes directly against people’s need to get healthcare.
Ellen Brown: How to Escape the Federal Debt Trap
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year.…
Think Tank Confirms Our Richest Pay Under 1% of Their Wealth Annually in Tax
A new Tax Foundation analysis also inadvertently shines a light on the uselessness of ‘adjusted gross income’ as an indicator of actual billionaire economic income.
Glenn Greenwald: What Would Trump’s Tariff Plan Mean For Consumers?(w/ Matt Stoller)
By Glenn Greenwald / System Update
Tax Dodging by Super-Rich, Big Corporations Costs Nations Half a Trillion Per Year: Study
"The U.K. and the U.S. are both among the biggest enablers and the biggest losers of this lose-lose tax system," said the chief executive of the Tax Justice Network.
How the Wall Street Journal Blew the Story of the Democrats and Inflation
The firehose of affluent consumption continues to drive inflation, not the stimulus package.
Richard Wolff: The End of the US Empire and the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and BRICS
The political crises facing the United States at home and abroad hinge on this question: How will the US manage its decline?
A World Where Our Grandchildren Have to Go to a Museum to See What a Gun Looked Like
The world yearns for ‘active’ peace, tired of the attitude of superiority that defines the North’s relations with the South. This means that wealth, which is produced by society, must…
The BRICS Summit in Kazan: A Manifesto for a Rational World Order
Let the West remain in denial about BRICS. While some dogs may bark, the caravan moves on.
BRICS Grows, Adding 13 New ‘Partner Countries’ at Historic Summit in Kazan, Russia
BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the…
Working People Place Cost of Living as Top Concern in US Elections
The economy and cost of living continues to be the top issue for the people of the US, who are struggling under astronomical housing and grocery costs.
BRICS Breakthrough? Economists Richard Wolff & Patrick Bond on Growing Alliance, Challenge to US
Will the BRICS economic and political alliance change the world’s U.S.-centered balance of power?
Elite US Economist Warns: Dollar System Is Weakening as Gold BRICS Rise
The US dollar is gradually losing its dominance, and foreign central banks are buying fewer Treasury securities, instead holding more gold in their reserves, warns mainstream American economist Mohamed El-Erian.…
Chris Hedges: Neoliberalism’s Spiritual Void (w/ George Monbiot)
By Chris Hedges / The Chris Hedges Report NOTE TO SCHEERPOST READERS FROM CHRIS HEDGES: There is now no way left for me to continue to write a weekly column…