The Uber and Lyft Strike
We need 21st century tactics to respond to a world in which capital and technology is abolishing labor
Economy
Steve Bannon: We’re In An Economic War With China
Steve Bannon wants to incite a conflict with China to distract you from the fact that Israel controls our foreign policy
Axios: Oak Ridge National Laboratory To Get New Supercomputer
The U.S. is “taking on China” by revealing free-market capitalism is based on an antiquated lie about technology
Southern History Series: A 1950s View of the Southern Plantation System
A less hysterical age looks back more objectively at the plantation system of the Old South
Meet The Robots
If we ignore it, maybe it will go away
AJ: Robots And AI: The Future Is Automated And Every Job Is At Risk
AJ+ explores the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Axios: Bernie Sanders Wants To Trust Bust Big Ag
Bernie Sanders wants to break up Big Ag. Is that wise?
Identity Dixie: Easy Mode Capitalism Part 1
Fulwar Skipworth’s take on the rise of finance capitalism
Counter-Currents: Populism & Neo-Thatcherism
Why economics is crucial for the Dissident Right
Axios: Trump Drops Demand That China Stop Cloning US Technology
Blompf wasn’t even the author of The Art of the Deal
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama In The Twentieth Century (Economy)
A book review of Wayne Flynt’s Alabama In The Twentieth Century
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1920-1993)
From sharecropping to space in a generation
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1865-1920)
From Confederate Alabama to Colonial Alabama
Southern History Series: Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (Until 1861)
Jeffersonianism retarded Alabama’s economic development
Andrew Yang: Universal Basic Income Isn’t a “Handout”
Andrew Yang takes on mainstream conservatism on FOX News
Southern History Month 2019: Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
A book review of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture & Industry
Southern History Month 2019: Review: Michael Lind’s Land of Promise
A book review of Michael Lind’s Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States
The Week: Are Robots Coming For Your Jobs?
Automation has been a constant in American history
Southern History Month 2019: Review: C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
A book review of C. Vann Woodward’s Origins of the New South, 1877-1913
Axios: Trump Dreams About a $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
The people he surrounds himself with are the definitive proof that Blompf has utterly no clue what he is doing
Axios: America’s Hidden Gig Economy
The gig economy is skewing employment statistics because all jobs are not created equal
Tucker Carlson Is Open To Endorsing Andrew Yang’s Presidential Campaign
Tucker Carlson is open to endorsing any candidate thst deeply thinks about automation
It’s Going Down: Against Automation, Against UBI, Against Capital
The anarchists are finally beginning to catch up with reality
Entrepreneur: Robots Are Stealing Our Jobs
A recent study predicts automation will eliminate 73 million jobs by 2030
Trump: In Every Respect, This Country Is Doing Well
You’re thriving under Trump. Life has never been better
Southern History Month 2019: Central Appalachia’s Extractive Economy
How Central Appalachia was ravaged, exploited and underdeveloped by free-market capitalism
Southern History Month 2019: Southern Manufacturing Job Losses Since WTO and NAFTA
The economic impact of free-trade on Southern manufacturing since the passage of NAFTA and the WTO
Trump: Real GDP Grew At 3.2% Last Quarter
What is GDP even measuring? It sure isn’t well-being
Southern History Month 2019: Firesale Prices: The Decimation of the Southern Public Domain
How the Southern forests were stripped bare and looted by Northern and European capitalists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Bernie Sanders Calls Out Boomerism
Son, back in my day I worked my way through college
Trump: The Stock Market Has Hit An All-Time High!
NO COLLUSION!
Stephen Moore: America Needs More Of These Immigrants
Blompf’s supply-side economists make the case for more high skilled immigration