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If the economy is producing near its limits, the idea would be virtually certain to increase inflation. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
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Filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn and a "Guerrilla Girl" contemplate cultural representation amid scorched-earth capitalism, as artists like Jeff Koons (pictured) make bank in a speculative art market. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
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What lessons did the founding generation take from the American Revolution, and why do we forget the early republican experiments? Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )
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William Pfaff / TruthdigDec 7, 2011
The extent to which the economic policy of nations is made on the basis of misinformation or wishful thinking is not generally recognized. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 17, 2011
Our favorite senator has had enough of "Wall Street speculators" jacking up oil prices. Here he tells radio host Ian Masters about his legislative attack plan. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 9, 2011
American universities are reportedly using endowment funds to buy and lease vast tracts of African farmland, often for piddling prices, in deals that will reward foreign investors handsomely while separating tens of thousands from their homes and farms and providing little or none of the economic benefits promised them, California researchers say. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 29, 2011
It seems everyone's got a pet theory about why the price of oil has jumped roughly 30 percent since the start of the year Right- wingers blame a conspiracy hatched by President Barack Obama to strangle domestic oil production and push his "radical" green agenda on an unsuspecting America (more). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 25, 2010
The U.N. is warning that the world may be on the cusp of a new major food crisis as the result of a wave of recent environmental disasters (heat waves, floods, wildfires) and capitalist disasters (market speculation, inflation) that are pushing up the price of foodstuffs. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 25, 2009
The Fed has been lending money at record-low rates, but instead of passing on the cash to businesses and consumers, big banks are rolling the dice in the financial markets China and Japan have warned that these American high jinks could once again upend (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 24, 2006
TomDispatch warns that the presence of American "super bases" in Iraq belies the idea that the U.S. will pull out of the country any time soon. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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