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The world on the brink of the abyss. Looking at the real danger
The world on the brink of the abyss. Looking at the real danger The neoliberal ideology of unrestrained markets has led to a global crisis. Humanity now faces an existential threat as the result of global dominance by corporations, whose ultimate goal is at odds with human flourishing Back in 1947, as the world was […]
Hogwash
Hogwash In the early 1980s, to Margaret Thatcher’s annoyance, union reps and managers at the steelworks in Port Talbot agreed a strategy to save the plant. As a result, Port Talbot was spared the post-industrial blight visited upon most of Britain’s ex-industrial towns. Now in private hands, and despite periodic crises, the steelworks employs some […]
How Long Can Lies & Control Supplant Reality & Free Markets?
How Long Can Lies & Control Supplant Reality & Free Markets? The facts of surreal yet broken (and hence increasingly controlled and desperate) financial markets are becoming harder to deny and ignore. Below, we look at the blunt evidence of control rather than the fork-tongued words of policy makers and ask a simple question: How long can […]
Will the Gov’t Close all Markets?
Will the Gov’t Close all Markets? QUESTION: Marty, the government closed the New York Stock exchange in 1914 due to World War I. Do you think they will do that again? Looking forward to Orlando WH ANSWER: The closure of 1914 was not the only time they shut down markets. Even the London market was shut down […]
Portrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’
Portrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’ In October 2020, I analysed press coverage of degrowth in Western European (English language) newspapers and magazines between January 2015 and October 2020. Using media theory concepts such as agenda setting and framing, my research explored how degrowth is being considered in the […]
Free Markets Are Dead: Fed To Start Buying Junk Bonds, High Yield ETFs
Free Markets Are Dead: Fed To Start Buying Junk Bonds, High Yield ETFs Back on March 23, when the Fed unveiled it would start buying investment grade corporate bonds, we said “now that the Fed is effectively all in, it will buy stocks and junk bonds next.” Two weeks later, we were right and this morning the Fed […]
The Fed Detests Free Markets
The Fed Detests Free Markets To be completely honest, I wrote -most of- the second part of this a while ago, and then I was thinking this first part should be part of the second, if you can still follow me. But it doesn’t really, it’s fine. I wanted to write something to address how […]
The Reasons Behind The Relentless Ideological Onslaught Against Free Markets
The Reasons Behind The Relentless Ideological Onslaught Against Free Markets I sometimes think that the free market concept is treated like The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’s Quasimodo in the long novel of global economic history. It is considered ugly and undesirable by most people who judge it at a mere glance without bothering to understand it. […]
The Psychological Warfare Behind Economic Collapse
The Psychological Warfare Behind Economic Collapse The concept of using the economy as a weapon is not an alien one to most people. Generally, we understand the nature of feudalism and how various groups can be herded onto centralized plantations to be exploited for their labor. Some people see this as a consequence of “capitalism,” […]
The Myth of Capitalism – A Book by Jonathan Tepper
The Myth of Capitalism – A Book by Jonathan Tepper Crony Capitalism vs. Free Markets Many of our readers are probably aware of the excellent work our friend Jonathan Tepper does for Variant Perception (VP)*****, a financial research boutique that really does bring a unique perspective to the table*. Jonathan (with co-author Denise Hearn) has […]
Disruptive Markets–What Sustainability Really Means For Business
Disruptive Markets–What Sustainability Really Means For Business Many look around at today’s crises – climate change spinning out of control, inequality driving political instability and our oceans filling with plastic – and despair at the prospects for serious change. Most then try to apportion blame or at least seek to understand why. Business blames consumers. […]
The Limits of Free Markets, Both Economic and Intellectual
The Limits of Free Markets, Both Economic and Intellectual Both in economics and speech, the market is a powerful metaphor. Free economic markets are efficient, and produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people by the fair interplay of sellers and buyers. The marketplace of ideas is supposed to produce truth, and maximize […]
It’s Time to Retire “Capitalism”
It’s Time to Retire “Capitalism” Our current socio-economic system is nothing but the application of force on the many to enforce the skims, scams and privileges of the self-serving few. I’ve placed the word capitalism in quotation marks to reflect the reality that this word now covers a wide spectrum of economic activities, very little […]
This Is What a True Liberty-Loving Politician Would Look Like
This Is What a True Liberty-Loving Politician Would Look Like What would a real friend of freedom say if he was offering himself for political office? In modern democracies, political cycles never end. As soon as one election is over, those seeking office are already running for the next election. Having recently attended a public […]
