Democrats secured Sen. Joe Manchin’s vote on their Inflation Reduction Act fka Build Back Better bill by agreeing to a sweetheart side deal for Manchin, who demanded his permitting reform bill for the benefit of the Carbon Monopoly. On Tuesday Republicans, who are the lickspittle lackeys of the Carbon Monopoly, nonetheless forced Manchin to pull … Read more
Republican Senators in Congress, most of whom come from well-to-do families and went to Ivy League Schools like Harvard and Yale (probably “legacy” admissions), are whining about the unfairness of it all that President Biden is forgiving student loan debt for lower income students. I guess it all depends on who is getting bailed out. … Read more
The investor class aka the predator class in the casino capitalism of Wall Street drove the stock market to unprecedented levels, despite a global pandemic and the recession it created. They bought into the irrational exuberance that the stock market always goes up. There were those experts who have been warning that Wall Street was … Read more
Critical race theorists hold that the law and legal institutions in the United States are inherently racist insofar as they function to create and maintain social, economic, and political inequalities between whites and nonwhites, especially African Americans. Here is a real life example. Donald Trump initiated a number of tariffs in his trade war with … Read more
Farmers have been devastated by Donald Trump’s trade war with China and Europe, which destroyed lucrative foreign markets it took years to build. It will take years to rebuild those markets, if at all, if they have not already been displaced by other foreign competitors. The only thing keeping many farmers financially afloat over the … Read more