Notebook VII, GrundrissePreface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political EconomyNotebook VII, GrundrisseCapital, volume 3

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Since we have a new president who favors Tariffs, we should start talking about how those Tariffs will impact the US Economy and Citizens. The Tax Foundation offers up a brief explanation which should be readily understandable for Angry Bear readers. If Trump is able to pull this off and get it out of Congress, […] The post The New Economy and the Tariffs and Tax Breaks to Launch It appeared first on Angry Bear.

Svensk universitetsutbildning — ett skämt! HD och Sydsvenskan har talat med ett tiotal universitetslärare vid några av de mest populära programmen vid Lunds och Malmö universitet. De ger en närapå samstämmig bild: trots toppbetyg är det många av studenterna som inte kan läsa böcker. – Vissa av våra studenter har problem med läsförståelsen och att ta till sig muntliga och skriftliga instruktioner, säger Nina Lundegren. Hon är lektor och programansvarig...

I Sverige har MMT knappt nämnts i den publika diskussionen överhuvudtaget. En genomsökning av tidningsdatabasen Retriever, som samlar upp det mesta som skrivs i detta land med någorlunda regelbundenhet finns MMT nämnt i ett par artiklar … Ett epicentrum för denna teoribildning har varit och är Levi Institute vid Bard College där professorerna L Randal Wrey och Stepanie Kelton hör till de mest omtalade. Här har man vårdat det intellektuella arvet efter ekonomen och...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I’ve seen some people post “Happy Veteran’s Day.” I’m not a veteran. Technically, my dad was, although he was a naval officer who did his service in the Canal Zone, nowhere close to combat. I never saw him happy on Veteran’s Day. I was never in the military, although I did carry a draft card […] The post Veteran’s Day appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]This week’s Covid coverage includes the most common variants … currently circulating – by r. j. Sigmund Briefly, since the CDC’s Covid demographic metrics continue to recede, albeit slowly. Among the “early indicators” “test positivity”, or the percentage of tests for Covid that were positive, fell to 4.8% during the week ending November 2nd, down […] The post Covid coverage includes the most common...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]A comparison of US Fiscal Deficit prompted me to post this at Angry Bear. I believe it will be interesting to see how Trumps fiscal policies playout over the next four years. Check out The Guardian’s Economics Editor’s commentary on Trumps economic plans. The Issue: With continued high fiscal deficits likely for the foreseeable future, […] The post United States’ Fiscal Policy in a Global Context appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]It does not look like students holding loan debt and looking for relief will get any relief soon. Newly minted President Donald Trump is in the revenge mode. That would include help from Republicans. Like any new administration looking for revenge, this one will attack the weakest element. It does not mean that Student Loan […] The post Student Loan Updates 2024 appeared first on Angry Bear.

from Shimshon Bichler & Jonathan Nitzan In 2019, we published a RWER paper assessing Trump’s promise to ‘Make America Great Again’. https://bnarchives.net/id/eprint/630/ Here are updates of two key charts from this paper. The first figure depicts the relative global decline of U.S. corporations. It shows that U.S. firms currently accounts for ~1/3rd of global corporate profit, down from 2/3rds half a century ago. The second figure shows the growing dependence of U.S. firms on foreign...

The new UN report on deaths in Gaza makes for Grim Reading. According to the admirable work of UN data sleuths, details close to 10.000 of the official 40.000+ deaths have been added. These are only the direct victims; indirect victims (starvation, stress, sickness) are omitted. One of the findings is that, unlike during earlier periods of war in Gaza, killing is indiscriminate. Many of the victims were women and children (graphs). The youngest victim was one day old, and the oldest was...