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Economic Growth In G7 Versus BRICS: A Reality Check
Friday, 8 September 2023, 10:54 am | Richard D. Wolff
Independent Media Institute In the United Kingdom, the BBC prepared and published data from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in January about different nations’ growth forecasts for 2023 and 2024. The BBC foregrounded some really bad news for ... More >>
The Debt Ceiling Debate Is A Massive Deception Against The Public
Tuesday, 9 May 2023, 10:41 am | Richard D. Wolff
Future historians will likely look back at the debt ceiling rituals being reenacted these days with a frustrated shaking of their heads. That otherwise reasonable people would be so readily deceived raises the question that will provoke those historians: ... More >>
Capitalism, Democracy, and Elections
Monday, 24 June 2013, 12:55 pm | Richard D. Wolff
Capitalism and real democracy never had much to do with one another. In contrast, formal voting in elections has worked nicely for capitalism. After all, elections have rarely posed, let alone decided, the question of capitalism: whether voters ... More >>
Criticism, Violence and Roosting Chickens
Thursday, 17 November 2011, 5:24 pm | Richard D. Wolff
The 99 percent offered criticism of the 1 percent. They exposed and made clear what most Americans know. They struggled peacefully to inform and mobilize public opinion. They won huge numbers of hearts and minds. The 1 percent in the US did what their ... More >>