I thought I would take a break from the latest outburst of debt ceiling mania to call attention once again to the bipartisan plan of budget austerity and recession-tempting economic devastation that will be implemented in March in one form or another,… more »

People are calling the Trillion Dollar coin, crazy, a farce, and even dangerous, but there is a common, mainstream proposal which is far more dangerous to our economy than the Trillion Dollar Coin. Over the next page or so, you’ll find out exactly ho… more »

The Fiscal Cliff and Debt Ceiling Duo: What Will Happen to U.S. Jobs? The legislation that kept the United States from going over the fiscal cliff was fool's gold for the 12 million Americans standing in the unemployment line. On the one hand, they h… more »

While most of the finance based articles focus on neoliberalism, they speak of myths pointing out why they are myths and developing an alternative MMT perspective in some detail. The Author - Joe Firestone - digs out the truths behind neoliberalism and concludes that the MMT policies can help to bring an end to a failing economy and growing economic inequality. more »

by Guest Author Mike Lofgren, truth-out.orgBarbara Stanwyck: "We're both rotten!"Fred MacMurray: "Yeah - only you're a little more rotten." -"Double Indemnity" (1944) Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two p… more »