The Itsfuckedforsure Bill: And the Ghosts of Spending Bills Past
President Biden signed H.R. 3684 into law, with leaders in Washington breaking their arms to pat themselves on the back. Never mind that the...
The Global Order of Money: How Exactly Does It Make the World Go ’Round?
We’ve hit on some big economic themes, from capitalism and socialism to deregulation, privatization and Modern Monetary Theory. And we’re typically...
The Economics of Racism.
Progressives continually lose the debate on issues of institutional poverty, structural inequality and systemic racism because they’re loaded with...
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...
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...
The Problem with Conscious Capitalism.
Today we examine Conscious Capitalism™ as an organization (the trademarked entity) and Conscious Capitalism the movement, characterized by the...
Stimulate This, Beyotch.
The United States seems to have lost the ability to govern and has given itself over to the whims of corporations that are designing every inch of...
Capitalism.
The left claims America is proof that capitalism is destroying the working class and the planet. The right claims America is proof that capitalism is...
Priorities.
Coronavirus exposed the American budget and monetary policy as giant myths. Turns out, we can afford to pay for just about anything we want....