Tag: corporate welfare

• Pretty Bubbles Turning Into Grime

  Michael Hudson has a new book out so I thought it was high time I posted some thoughts I’ve been meaning to write up about his last one, The Bubble and Beyond. I’ve posted before about Hudson’s 1973 classic Superimperialism, whose analysis of the economic strategy of American Empire was followed by a terrific 1977…

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  September 13, 2015

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Book Reviews, Corporate Welfare, Current Events, Debt, Economics, History, Politics

  american empire, Bill Black, Black Agenda Report, Bob Pollin, Book Reviews, Brown University, Cambridge, Capitalism, Cold War, corporate welfare, Counterpunch, Economics, Global Fracture, Harvard University, History, Imperialism, Jedediah Purdy, Joseph Stiglitz, Karl Marx, michael hudson, Mission of Burma, MIT, Nick Drake, Paul Krugman, Paul Volcker, Superimperialism, Syriza, Television Personalities, The Bubble & Beyond, The Fall, The Last Poets, The New York Times, The Real News Network, UMKC, Vijay Prashad, Washington Consensus, Yanis Varoufakis

• Corporate Welfare.10: Wrestelmania

  I just read an incredible article by Dan O’Sullivan in Jacobin magazine about the abuse of wrestlers by their promoters, and in particular, by Vince McMahon and the WWE, (World Wrestling Entertainment.)  I recently wrote about the film The Wrestler as a depiction of how wrestling performs the abuse of workers outside the ring by amplifying…

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  August 11, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Corporate Welfare, Film, Music, Politics

  corporate welfare, Dan O’Sullivan, Films, Folk Implosion, Hulk Hogan, Interscope Records, Jacobin magazine, John Darnielle, Left media, Madonna, Mountain Goats, Professional Wrestling, profit margins, Richard Grabel, The Wrestler, Unions, Vince McMahon, WWE

• Corporate Welfare.9: Markets and Chains

  Today I’m posting a link to an article from the blog CivilEats.com by Adrien Schless-Meier called “Why Grocery Store Workers Are Making Less While Big Chains Make More.”  It’s a topic on my mind because one of the songs on the record I’m working on is about the economics of supermarkets.  The song is called “King Piggly…

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  July 22, 2014

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Corporate Welfare, Economics, Film, Music, Work In Progress

  Adrien Schless-Meier, Bread & Circus, Cambridge, civileats.com, corporate welfare, Films, Food Justice, King Piggly Wiggly, Publix, Raj Patel, Rindge Towers, Target, The Wrestler, Trader Joe’s, Upcoming Projects, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods

• Corporate Welfare.4: Avoid Amazon

  Salon.com published a piece today with the provocative title, “Amazon is worse than Walmart.” Their argument centers on the notion that Amazon’s business strategy for years has been to accept near-perennial losses on a quarterly and yearly basis in exchange for achieving a near monopoly size “market share.” Walmart, by contrast, actually makes a profit.…

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  July 30, 2013

  Anti-Neoliberalism, Corporate Welfare, Economics, Politics, Series of posts

  Capitalism, corporate welfare, Dennis Johnson, Free Lunch, Melville House press, Monopoly, Neoliberalism, Politics, profit margins