October 15, 2021
So you want to “get into the market” because that’s where the real money can be made, but you haven’t been tuning in lately to the investment game. Couple things to know: Most of the players you’ll be playing against aren’t human. They’re bots: Their nervous systems are algorithms that detect fleeting price discrepancies and market patterns, and then place orders automatically. That’s okay, right? Humans played chess against computers for the fun of it and even beat them until recently, right?
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Tax havens are the single biggest accelerant of global inequity. And most of the global banking system is in on the scam. The Panama Papers leaked in 2016 implicated 500 banks, which together had registered 15,000 shell companies with a Panamanian law firm.
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The global financial system is a kind of tyranny, and nothing good can happen on Planet Earth until we seriously rein it in. Until we restore value to the heart of the exchange equation, until we build a vibrant economy that rewards real innovation, one that ’s about making useful things and providing needed services — real work and real output, rather than the useless offgassing of high finance.
Read articleRead articleSeptember 30, 2021
Gen. Min Aung Hlaing of Myanmar. Belarus’s Lukashenko. Assad. Sisi. MBS. These monsters lord it over millions of people, upholding their autocratic grip on power with tyranny and terror, torture and murder.
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Maverick economics everywhere are on a rampage. They're determined to kill off all the remaining "logic freaks" ... come up with real measures of progress ... make all markets true-cost ... outlaw derivatives ... abolish flash trading ... ultimately make usury taboo.
Read articleRead articleAugust 20, 2021
Capitalism is in crisis. The inability of economists to deal with species extinction, resource depletion and climate change — not to mention the 2008 financial meltdown that blindsided them all — has turned the profession into, well, a bit of a joke. Economists routinely appear near the top of “least-trusted professions” polls. Ordinary people see them, more and more, as inept.
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Economists study and analyze poverty in their nice offices, they have all the statistics, they make all the models and are convinced they know everything. But they don’t understand poverty.
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They are almost always nasty, messy, dirty affairs, very much like political revolutions. They unfold like vindictive putsches. The old guard protects its turf jealously. The dissenters are ignored, stonewalled, refused publication and tenure, ostracized and obstructed in every way.
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This is how scientific progress is supposed to happen: A theory, a paradigm, ...
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EACH MORNING I WAKE UP AND FIND MYSELF IN A LULL. AM I PATHETIC? AM I NOT INFORMED? CORPORATIONS DOMINATE MORE NOW THAN THEY EVER HAVE AT ANY TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY, BUT I FEEL NOTHING.
Read articleRead articleJuly 19, 2021
If you look at the MeToo and BLM movements and ask Why Now? What was different this time?, it’s clear some key conditions were in place. A sort of energy had been building, an invisible rising heat that needed to meet its historical moment, and a final torch blast to get it to Fahrenheit 451.
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July 14, 2021
Industrial farming is a war with nature. It’s about killing everything so one plant can grow. “You could argue that modern agriculture has brought about the most wholesale ecocide on the planet by killing the astonishingly rich microbial life of the soil,” writes Verlyn Klinkenborg for The New York Review of Books. Scraping away layer after layer of fertile, living soil, industrial farmers since the 19th century “simply mined their way downward … until they reached the place we are now.” That is, at the barren limit of rock bottom.
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Shoppers Drug Mart doesn’t want you to read Adbusters.Recently we were “delisted” (how’s that for Orwellian?) by Canada’s largest retailer of print magazines. All copies of Adbusters were pulled from its shelves — shelves we had paid a premium simply for the privilege of appearing on them, buried behind Vogue and Vanity Fair.
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With a radically decreasing life expectancy the neighborhood declared war. Acid attacks at dawn. Hack genre militant organizations set internet kiosks to play ice cream truck song to frustrate the heat wave public. The bohemian peripheries of militant formations rerouted the world’s fastest internet speeds, seeing posts before posted, livestreaming conversations that hadn’t yet taken place.
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In Xinjiang, 82 multinationals are complicit in the state-sponsored torture and enslavement of Uyghurs. The only humane thing to do is to boycott every one of them.
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