Finance
Maurice Stucke: Data Competition Won’t Protect Your Privacy
Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to reign in Big Tech. But such moves won’t go far enough in protecting user privacy. Read Here
Monopolies
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Cloudalists: Our New Cloud-based Ruling Class
Capital is everywhere, yet capitalism is on the wane. In an era when the owners of a new form of “command capital” have gained exorbitant power over everyone else, including traditional capitalists, this is no […]
Economics
The Counterbalance – Where telecoms meet monopoly
Vodafone is on an international mergers and buying spree, which is likely to hurt a lot of hard-pressed people who already face a severe cost of living crisis following the pandemic and Russia’s botched and […]
Economics
Jan Toporowski – The Ukrainian War and the End of Globalization?
Economic sanctions against Russia are adding to a major redistribution of income from workers and middle-class consumers to profits in international trade. Jan Toporowski is Professor of Economics and Finance, SOAS, Visiting Professor of Economics, […]
Finance
Marshall Steinbaum: The Antitrust Case Against Gig Economy Labor Platforms
For years now, labor unions and their allies have accurately identified the so-called gig economy as an existential threat to whatever shred of worker power and labor standards remains in the US economy. Read Here
Climate Crisis
Dean Baker – We Don’t Need a Cold War with China
The US has been manouvering in preperation for a trade war with China. Dean Baker’s thoughts on this Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from […]
Economics
Dean Baker – USA: More Bad News on Inflation
An interesting take on the current US inflation and interest rates Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from the CEPR Blog The jump in the […]
Economics
Prime – Ann Pettifor: Rentier capitalism is profoundly risk-averse
21st century capitalism bears little resemblance to the capitalism that fired the Industrial Revolution, or indeed to the more recent Thatcher/Reagan model of capitalism. Key sectors of today’s new hyper-capitalism are profoundly risk averse. Read […]
Deregulation
Michael Hudson – America’s real adversaries are its European and other allies
The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia Michael Hudson is the author of Killing the Host (published in e-format by CounterPunch Books and in print by Islet). His new book is J […]
Economics
Hubert Horan – The Uber Bubble: Why Is a Company That Lost $20 Billion Claimed to Be Successful?
This is the first in a series of three articles from the end of 2019 that we have dug out of the archives in support of the Barcelona taxi drivers’ current conflict with Uber (see […]