Tag Archives: Michael Kalecki
Collaborators
The Great Depression so discredited capitalism that it created space for the New Deal reforms implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Many of these policies, influenced by economist John Maynard Keynes, involved massive government intervention in the economic affairs of … Continue reading
Wedgie
To accomplish their economic agenda conservatives have historically used race, crime, abortion, and gay marriage as divisive wedge issues. It’s the same today. Indeed, government at every level is under attack by the forces of organized wealth and their political enablers who … Continue reading
The Problem with Full-Employment
Today is a national day of action sponsored by AFSCME to tell Congress to support jobs not cuts to social programs. I called my Senators and Representatives, but it got me to thinking. In the wake of a financial crash that … Continue reading
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