Diversity is important. But when it is devoid of a political agenda it recruits a tiny segment of those marginalized by society into unjust structures to help perpetuate them.
Chris Hedges: Woke Imperialism
Tag: Wall Street
Wall Street Greenwashing
“Carbon intensity” and reductions in “overall greenhouse gas emissions” are two very different things, writes Alec Connon.
Investing in Guns or People?
For an explanation of the massive inflationary wave that is now cresting on the world and causing widespread suffering and instability, Vijay Prashad turns to U.S. economic policy.
When Wall Street Came to My Mobile Home Park
Francine Townsend loved where she lived until a corporation entwined with a Toronto-based private equity firm took ownership of it.
Consortium News: Exposing the Myths of America
Consortium News delivers first-rate journalism that bursts the myths that U.S. elites depend on to fool people into supporting their designs.
Trillion Dollar Pools of Unregulated Capital
Chuck Collins considers the systemic risks of “family offices,” those in-house wealth management systems that hit the headlines with the the collapse of Archegos Capital.
Chris Hedges: Bandaging the Corpse
Biden’s bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America’s death spiral.
Poll: Likely Voters Support ‘Wall Street Tax Act’
The levy would target high-frequency trading and is projected to generate $777 billion over a 10-year period.
Three-Card Monte, Wall Street-Style
Their operation was in jeopardy, their ‘business model’ at risk. Their reaction was typical for the brazen barons of finance, writes Michael Brenner.
The Consequences of Moving from Industrial to Financial Capitalism
Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar last month took a hard look at rent and rent-seeking at the Henry George School of Social Science.