Riot police stand in front of protesters at the inauguration for President Trump in Washington, DC, January 20, 2017. (Photo: Shamila Chaudhary / Flickr) The President of the United States [ … ]

There’s no Plan B for a state-corporate form of central-planning capitalism that is no longer functioning. If there is one reality that is denied or obscured by the Status Quo, [ … ]

From the time the Federal Communications Commission was created in 1934, through the 1970s, the US government largely acted to preserve media diversity and prevent media consolidation, putting in place [ … ]

Force is not the same as power. If force fails to persuade, power evaporates. The decline of middle class wealth and income is not just an economic trend–it translates directly [ … ]

Student loan lenders are skimming tens of billions in profits guaranteed by the taxpayers. “Legal” rackets have two essential components: a public-relations “cover” that obscures the racket and the mechanism [ … ]

One chart, more than any other, has influenced people’s beliefs about the US manufacturing sector, as can be see by this debate here, and here (the latter a link to the [ … ]

“Fintech, Regulatory Arbitrage, and the Rise of Shadow Banks” is an interesting new paper by  Greg Buchak, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski, and Amit Seru 1. Shadow banks and fintech have [ … ]

WiFi bagel munchersHotel short sheetersLoosy goose dancersAmericas got talent watching weirdosYappy dog ownersGift card giversChristmas present stashed in closet stuffersMarijuana seed smokersThose who are down with O.P.P Wrong Size ShopliftersThose [ … ]

The Powers That Be are perfectly fine with your transition to proletarian debt-serf. Yesterday we covered the usual suspects in the decline of the middle class as a financial-political bulwark against oligarchy [ … ]

This post is not about our recent election, nor the last or the one before that, and before that, and before that and so on. And it is not about [ … ]