Occupy at 10.
We’re nearly 10 years on from Occupy Wall Street. We wanted to get a jump on the retrospective before every mainstream news outlet hops on and gives...
Modern Monetary Theory.
Few concepts get under the skin of traditional economists, Wall Street executives and academics as Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT. We’ve been...
Stupid White Guy Olympics.
In today’s Quickie, we celebrate the upcoming Olympics with our own field of challengers for the nation’s top Stupid White Guy! Exciting times. Our...
How to Talk About the Trump Years.
While the ink is still wet on the Trump era, we’re going to talk through what the real legacy might be before revisionists get a hold of it one way...
Manufacturing Dissent.
Today we take on News Corp., the most egregious example of “manufactured consent.” The fact that we let this monster from down under invade our...
F*ck Milton Friedman.
Here we are, Unf*ckers. It’s our great hope that we contextualize the Chicago school of economics and its high priest Milton Friedman by alternately...
UNFTR Behind the Scenes
Celebrating our first milestone.
Chicago School Teaser.
In this teaser essay, we do a quick recap on why the fuck we're so mad at Milton Friedman and briefly summarize prior essays that are useful primers...
The Problem with Conscious Capitalism.
Today we examine Conscious Capitalism™ as an organization (the trademarked entity) and Conscious Capitalism the movement, characterized by the...
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Cuba (Not So) Libre.
This essay of UNFTR begins with a slightly different perspective on the 1959 Revolution that has evaded most retellings in U.S. history books and...
May 2021 Quickie.
The media has been hard at work lately trying to rehabilitate the image of three significant members of the Republican Party. So we’re not going to...
The Assange Problem.
Today, we’re going to review the story of WikiLeaks and put the debate over the fate of Assange in the only context it should be—to answer the...
Corporate (Ir)Responsibility: Part Two.
We briefly recap what we covered in Part One as a refresher, then launch into some of the more egregious examples of how corporations have used their...