President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Income Taxes: Can It Be Done?
By Ellen Brown / Original to ScheerPost In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The…
Can We Exit From a World of Debt?
Debt looms over the Global South like a vulture, ready to pick at the carcass of our societies.
And the Winners of the 2024 Shkreli Awards for Worst Healthcare Profiteering Are…
"All these stories paint a picture of a healthcare industry in desperate need of transformation," said the head of the think tank behind the awards.
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.
A Nation of Debtors: USA
With multitudes of Americans priced out of the home-ownership chimera, they face the highway robbery of insanely, artificially inflated rents.
Debt Is Political: Why Wealth Flows From Poor to Rich
By Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson / Geopolitical Economy Report How does the structure of the international financial system cause a drain of wealth from the poor to the rich?…
Israel’s Latest Weapon Against Palestine Is Egypt’s Debt
Will Egypt agree to take in the Palestinian population expelled from Gaza in exchange for the cancellation of its external debt?
The World Needs a New Development Theory That Does Not Trap the Poor in Poverty
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In June, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network published its Sustainable Development Report 2023, which tracks the progress of the…
Debt, Overcrowding, or Death: America’s Very Broken Healthcare System
Despite the lack of universal healthcare coverage in the US, the country spends significantly more on healthcare related costs than comparable countries.
The Chris Hedges Report: The Fed’s Response to Inflation Is Another Upward Transfer of Wealth (With Richard Wolff )
Capitalist profiteering is the real driver of the inflation crisis, and raising interest rates only passes the costs onto workers already overwhelmed by personal debt and stagnant wages.
Transforming the Real Estate Market: Using the Crisis in the Localized Real Estate Market To Promote Healthy Development and Economic Growth
By Xià Bīn (夏斌) Editor’s Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation…
The European Central Bank is Trapped. Here’s Why.
The credit-based global financial system we have constructed and participated in over the past century has to continually grow or die.