Playing Monopoly for Real
What the gutsy Boston Tea Party rebels were actually tossing was corporate monopoly power. Get your heave-ho muscles in shape, for the monopolists are back. Shouting “Down with … Read more
economy
Trumponomics: Batman … or Dracula?
Trump’s economic report report is shamelessly grandiose, replete with flagrant fabrications, in other words, just more Trumponomics. It’s shocking, I tell you, shocking, that some millionaires and billionaires … Read more
How Much Does Donald Trump Love Farmers?
Trump trade spat has collapsed the market and prices for grain farmers. As a farmer told me, “You can still make a small fortune in agriculture, but the … Read more
Thousands of Middle Class Americans Storm Mexican Border Seeking Better Life
Tired of watching their fortunes and incomes dwindle, disgruntled Yanks storm Mexican border in huge numbers. A major melee occurred today on the American/Mexican border as thousands of … Read more
It’s Not Socialism; It’s What the People Want
It ain’t “socialism” in the classic government-runs-everything sense, it’s democratic populism, reversing decades of policies that take from the many to give to the wealthy few. “Socialism,” snarled … Read more
What’s the Cost of High Living?
Uber-rich are clueless about the gross inequality their financial schemes are creating, and we pay the cost of their high living. The high living rich aren’t merely different … Read more
Front-Porch Politics: Everyone Wants Populist Reforms
A People’s Action report highlights universal desire for real populist reform. If you despair that a mysterious plague of incurable political knuckleheadism has swept our country, turning previously … Read more
Why Are Republicans So Quiet About Their Chief Economic Accomplishment?
There’s an eerie silence from Trumpeteers about their trillion-dollar tax giveaway to corporate elites. Listen … Can you hear it? Listen to the eerie “sound of silence” from … Read more
Tracking Trump’s Convoluted Immigration Policy
America’s historically open immigration policy has produced many greats, and a few less-than-stellar citizens. Racially and ethnically speaking, I’m not sure who I am: Irish, Black, Anglo, Native … Read more
We Want Your House
Hi! We love your house and want to be its next owners! Weβre the couple that came in five minutes before your open house ended, trailing three adorable … Read more
