How Cities Can Reduce Poverty – Or Deepen It
As informal settlements become home to a significant and growing share of the world’s urban population, Rossbach emphasized how “informal settlements hold
Reason-Vision-Virtue
Why Capitalism Is Fundamentally Undemocratic
The reality is that capital does not allocate investment on the basis of what ordinary people actually need or want. It allocates
The Spectre of Dollar doomsday still looms
I’m not necessarily predicting that a corporate debt or crypto-fuelled liquidity crunch will take down the US economy — although I wouldn’t
The Myth of “The Economy”
The “economy” is not a monolithic, natural force as economists would have you believe, it’s a human-made system of policies based on
Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over
Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, admitted as much during more than ten hours of testimony, over three days last week, in the opening
China’s ‘Bleeding’ Exporters Have 3 Options. All of Them Are Bad
The risk, experts say, is that the longer the tariffs stay in place, the more likely smaller firms will shut down or
The Geopolitics of Tariffs
We are moving from a process of imperatives generated by geopolitical realities to the engineering of a new reality. Financial matters are
For a Democratic Society, Democratize Finance
Were the Left able to build the foundations required for the construction of this model, the rewards would be significant. The Master’s Tools promises
How Much “Weaponization” Can the Global Economy Take?
While leveraging global economic choke points to advance one’s own interests is certainly preferable to deploying tanks or launching missiles, such leveraging
Digital imperialism
And this overlap in the policy priorities of social media platforms and the political interests of the U.S. administration opens a new
How China will disrupt the AI industry
Of course, the open source nature of Chinese AI models will spur competition from other countries since everyone competes at a level