Capitalism | Economy | Online Blog | USA
U.S. Economy: Beneath the Bombast
U.S. President Trump made a series of boasts about the success of the U.S. economy in his Davos speech. This articles examines these claims.
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Dismantling the MGNREGA: An Assault on Livelihoods of Millions of Workers – 4 Articles
‘Withdraw VB-G RAM G Bill Forthwith, Says NREGA Sangharsh Morcha’; ‘End of MGNREGA Will Deepen Poverty’; ‘Low Funds, Pending Dues, No Work: How Govt Crippled MGNREGA Before Renaming It’; ‘The Aadhaar e-KYC has Led to the Silent Shrinking of India’s Rural Workforce’.
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Capitalism | Economy | Exploitation | India | Online Blog | Poverty | Unemployment
India: Inequality at Historic High; World Bank Shows Rising Poverty as Declining – 4 Articles
‘The Hidden Cost of India’s Economic Boom: Inequality at Historic High, as Wealth and Income Growth Leave Out Millions’; ‘G20 Report Says Top 1% Indians Grew Richer by 62% in 2000–23’; ‘World Bank Miracle: How to Show Rising Poverty as Declining!’; ‘India’s Wealth Gap Grows and Average Wealth Falls, But Millionaires Surge’.
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Capitalism | Caste | Economy | India | Online Blog
‘Accept Equality and the World Improves – It’s Really Not Complicated’: Saeed Akhtar Mirza
In this interview, Saeed Mirza discusses Hindutva-oriented films and what they mean for India today.
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Capitalism | Economy | India | Online Blog
Corporate Corruption in Modi Raj – 5 Articles
‘Corruption Festers in India, But No Outrage in Modi Raj’; ‘Modi Govt Oversaw Plan to Steer Billions from LIC to Adani: Report’; ‘Narendra Modi’s Mammoth Bank Heist Over the Last 10 Years’; ‘Cobrapost Alleges Rs 28,874-crore “Fraud” by Anil Ambani’s Reliance ADA Group’; ‘Surely, the General Doth Protest Too Much’.
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Debt and the Cockroaches
The stock market may be booming and the AI hype is still exploding, but the rest of the economy is not so buoyant; and there appear to be cockroaches eating into the clean running of the world of debt.
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Capitalism | Economy | India | Online Blog
Rupee’s Free Fall and RBI’s Silence
The central bank once spent billions defending the rupee. Now it watches it fall, saving ammunition for when Trump’s real assault begins.
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Capitalism | Economy | Online Blog | USA
The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy; Bubbles and Capitalism – 2 Articles
‘The AI Bubble and the U.S. Economy’: The spending on AI capacity goes on mounting; and investors keep piling cash into buying AI company stock and debt. It’s one big bet on AI for the U.S. economy. Also: ‘“Bubbles” and Neo-Liberal Capitalism’.
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Migration, the Essence of Humanity
As paleoanthropologist Christine Verna, one of the organizers of A Human Odyssey, points out, migration is neither recent nor exceptional to a particular place on the planet. They have existed since 300,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens marked the origin of humanity on the African continent.
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China | Climate Change | Economy | Environment | Online Blog
China Breaks the Link Between Economic Development and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
This article gives an overview of the progress made by China in recent years with regard to clean energy, and poses the question: why is it that China, rather than the advanced capitalist countries, has emerged as the world’s only ‘green superpower’?
