Price Of US Monopolies

” “Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism; it’s exploitation,” Biden said” US consumers have gradually become familiar with monopolies to the Continue reading →

Guaranteed Income Works Again

Providing poor people with a guaranteed income without constraints works again. Stockton, California provided $500 to a small group of Continue reading →

Shrinking American Dream

The American Dream isn’t dead, but far fewer are able to achieve one of its key accomplishments: a better life, Continue reading →

Pandemic Worsens Global Debt

Check back to a post from February 2020 about the Global Debt Wave. The worry was and is that global Continue reading →

Truly Unemployed US Citizens

The traditional unemployment numbers come with so many asterisks that we’re accustomed to ignore them. While the official US unemployment Continue reading →

Record US Unemployment May 1 2020

Every week has added to last month’s record US unemployment. Some recent weeks have singly been ten times the previous Continue reading →

Preparing For Corporate Defaults

Unemployment is spiking. Personal financing is being challenged. Looking at the stock market it is easy to assume that corporations Continue reading →

Record US Unemployment 040220

A previous post chronicled the sudden rise in unemployment in the US from a previous record ~600,000 to over 3,200,000. Continue reading →