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In their failed bid to blockade Bally’s $1.7 billion River West casino, downtown city council members warned the deal was rushed — just like the one that privatized Chicago’s parking meters — and that it would end up being “even worse” for taxpayers. This dire prediction is hard to imagine,Read More →
(The Center Square) — The State Board of Solicitors will determine on Thursday whether five gubernatorial candidates will reach the Aug. 2 primary after a report says they failed to collect the 15,000 valid signature threshold. A report from the Michigan Bureau of Elections indicates that five candidates should notRead More →
No one has appreciated the power of capitalism better than its greatest antagonist, Karl Marx. Born of the Enlightenment, embodied by the Industrial Revolution, capitalism, according to Marx, “has accomplished marvels far beyond the Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals. . . achieve more massive and colossal productive forcesRead More →
“When you work here, you join a family.” These are the words that were spoken to me during my integration day for a job in a paper mill, at the age of 19. Many will have heard similar statements at some point in their journey into gainful employment. This livelyRead More →
These are the last headlines from ECHO this morning. Mum feels a part of her is gone after her 18-year-old son’s sudden death An 18-year-old man who “saw the best in everyone” has died in his sleep from a rare heart condition. John Nesbitt had just completed his A-Levels andRead More →
When Butte resident Mike Paffhausen graduated from Carroll College in 2009, he received a thin, purple school book that he says changed his life. It was called “Life After Graduation: Your Guide to Success”. Paffhausen then made a to-do list on a few blank pages at the back of theRead More →
By Bhabani Shankar Nayak* A very well-meaning comrade called me a multi-versal Marxist with a savage smile full of English irony while presiding over my book publishing function at the Marx Memorial Library, London. I dedicate this piece to him…There is no other philosopher who is more abused and misunderstoodRead More →
Every once in a while, an old claim goes viral: capitalism is ruining the planet. The argument is that capitalism needs economic growth to sustain itself. And economic growth requires more production, which means more carbon emissions and pollution. Therefore, capitalism is bad for the environment. A recent viral tweetRead More →
DR Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr can be expected to continue his father’s original labor export policy. What he says goes against all of the state’s presumed commitments. It is an obligation, a democratic and constitutional duty of the state, to provide meaningful and humane jobs in the Philippines. Workers mustRead More →
When you’re trying to pay off your debt, it can be hard to stay motivated. Especially if you’ve been struggling with it for a while. But don’t worry, because you are not alone. Thousands of people are in the same situation as you, and many of them have found waysRead More →
Editor’s Note: Lee Enochs is a graduate student of the Mayborn School of Journalism and a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary. At the risk of sounding like a gadfly or contradicting popular opinion, there seem to be good reasons why one should reject socialism as a viable economic system andRead More →
On Sunday May 1, after being kicked out of the English Football League three years previously, Bury FC were taken out of administration in a fan-led takeover. This will see the club’s majority stake transferred to the Bury Football Club Supporters’ Society – no doubt a huge relief forRead More →
City Council approved a pilot program at its May 5 meeting to provide monthly payments of $1,000 to 85 households for an entire year. Once people are accepted into the guaranteed income pilot, they won’t have to “prove” they still need the help, as many government-run financial aid programs normallyRead More →
Members of the congregation participate in a mass at the National Shrine Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on June 22, 2020 in Washington, DC | Getty Images/Alex Wong I was recently joined by Dr. Peter Jacobsen on the Business in the Kingdom podcast on the Edifi Network. Dr. Jacobsen teachesRead More →
In an interview ahead of a conference in Budapest of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Miklós Szánthó, the head of the Center for Fundamental Rights think tank, called the Hungarian right “the most successful political movement in Western Civilization”. ”. He told public radio that conservatives in the WesternRead More →
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Listen here or subscribe to Apple podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, including Youtube, where closed captioning is available. Stay up to date on episodes via our Twitter. If you would like to support the journalism of the Toronto Star, you can subscribe toRead More →
Socialist Register 2022New polarizations and old contradictions:The crisis of centrismEdited by Greg Albo and Colin Leys320 pages; 978-1-58367-937-1; $29 paper Reviewed by Seth Sandronsky Socialist Register 2022 provides a thought-provoking analysis of the factors and forces driving multiple polarizations in our world. They include nation and race identities, social classRead More →
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On April 19 of last year, Raúl Castro voluntarily resigned from his last and surely most important position, that of Secretary General of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC). Nineteen months earlier, he had ceded the presidency of the country to Miguel Díaz-Canel. Having supported his older brother Fidel, theRead More →
Veterans ohf World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War declared that young Americans must wake up if they think socialism is a good idea. Veterans delivered the message Tuesday as they gathered at the World War II Memorial to celebrate the Honor Flight Network’s milestone of bringingRead More →
Demonstration: “people not profits” Getty In the 1970s, a small group of activists and their allies came together and embarked on an unlikely quest to redefine what is good for society and enact discriminatory public policy to help themselves. Now, in 2022, their supporters are celebrating not only victory, butRead More →
Studies have long shown that high school students are woefully misinformed about personal finances and how to manage them. But the COVID-19 pandemic, which has revealed how many American adults are living on the financial edge, has spurred ongoing efforts to make financial literacy classes a school requirement. Seven statesRead More →
If Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were somehow transported to the present day and given a newspaper, the apparent absence of class conflict would probably make revolutionaries believe they had won. They would see a society divided on all sorts of issues – from identity politics to the right COVID-19Read More →
She wants to help shape young black women! Chicago Community Trust CEO steps down to become president of Spelman College, WBEZ Chicago Reports. During his tenure, Gayle grew the Trust’s assets from approximately $2.8 billion to $4.7 billion. When the COVID-19 pandemic swept the country, Gayle mobilized a response withinRead More →
Former President Donald Trump throws “Make America Great Again” hats to onlookers at a rally in Georgia.Photo Reuters Biden says the Republican Party is in the grip of “MAGA’s extremist agenda.” His attack was sparked by the abortion controversy that erupted this week in the United States over a leakedRead More →
Workers in North Korea have ridiculed their government’s May Day propaganda that touted the superiority of socialism at a time when most people are struggling to put enough food on the table, sources in the country told FRG. May Day, or International Workers’ Day, is an annual celebration of theRead More →
US President Joe Biden has called the Trump movement “the most extreme political organization” to have existed in recent US history, deepening his criticism of the former president’s hold on the Republican Party at the following revelations about the likely conservative-led Supreme Court decision to eviscerate abortion rights. Biden’s commentsRead More →
Michigan residents without financial resources spend about $3,000 on bank charges each year. Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Open Account Coalition (MOAC) announced a low-cost account available to Michigan residents who are unbanked or underbanked. A Federal Reserve Report 2019 found that 22% of American adults are either unbankedRead More →
This is the report given by Nick Beams at the May Day 2022 online rally held on May Day. Beans is a longtime leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics. To see all the speeches, visit wsws.org/mayday. Nick Beams, leading member ofRead More →
The strategy adopted by central governments to manage the economic downturn of COVID-19 was simple: bail out the entire capitalist class. Governments in the industrialized world, including that of the United States, have spent billions of dollars providing subsidies to owners, multinational corporations and financiers throughout the pandemic. Although vaccinesRead More →
On January 26, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a “Request for Information Regarding Fees Charged by Providers of Consumer Financial Products or Services.” In a contemporary statement, CFPB Director Rohit Chopra described the request for information as the start of “a new effort to help American families save billionsRead More →
Pictured: Attendees at the Texas Eco-Socialism Conference. picture of the release As the effects of climate change worsen and overwhelming evidence points to the need to change the system immediately, the organized movement to change this system has also grown. Even in Texas, where the oil and gas companies holdRead More →
Call your state representative By state law, appraisal districts must appraise property at market value. In fact, appraisal districts are regulated by the state of Texas to ensure that they do their job fairly and accurately. Failure to comply with these state-mandated regulations results in reduced formula funding for localRead More →
Russia’s war on Ukraine both reflects and deepens a global split that should remind us of Karl Marx’s famous remark: “No social order ever disappears until all productive forces, for which there is place, have been developed; and new higher relations of production never appear until the material conditions ofRead More →
Tarek Ayoub, founder of Beforepay, and Jamie Twiss, CEO. Source: provided. The fortunes of prepayment fintech Beforepay appeared to change on Thursday, after a new report contrasted losses with rapid customer growth and a significant reduction in debt forgiveness. Beforepay, launched in 2019, draws inspiration from the buy now, payRead More →
In his April 26 “Your Turn,” DeVoe Moore laments the rise of socialism and the decline of capitalism in the United States. In doing so, he calls the government’s response to Covid 19 “unnecessary spending” and presents some figures for government spending to deal with this national crisis. In hisRead More →
Clockwise from top left: Angy Lebowitz reads a copy of People’s Weekly World in July 1995; Angy in 2020; and US Army First Lieutenant Angy Lebowitz while serving as a nurse in World War II. | Popular World Archives Angy Lebowitz, an energetic little fighter for peace, racial equality, universalRead More →
Comparison of States with Highest and Lowest Levels of Personal Debt and Income Americans collectively owe more than $15.3 trillion in personal debt, accumulated by financing homes and cars, taking out loans to attend college, or simply using credit cards. However, debt is not necessarily a sign that borrowers areRead More →
On Sunday evening, Emmanuel Macron became the first French president in 20 years to win a second term since Jacques Chirac in 2002. The victory, said Lewis Goodall, will have brought audible sighs of relief in European capitals, in the institutions of Brussels, in Washington and gnashing of teeth ofRead More →
A single mother has racked up £10,000 in debt due to the cost of living crisis affecting families across the UK. June Butterworth, 44, had to go from her job as a caregiver, a job she had had all her working life, to a housekeeper working reduced hours in aRead More →
Monday, April 25, 2022 12 p.m.; State House Library THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF RHODE ISLAND TO HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE WITH RIGOP PRESIDENT SUE CIENKI AND SENATE MINORITY WHIP JESSICA DE LA CRUZ On Monday, April 25, the Republican Party of Rhode Island (RIGOP) will hold a press conference withRead More →
Two polls, one in Canada and one in the US, found that millennials tend to have a positive view of socialism and socialist policies, with the US poll showing that 70% of millennials say they are likely to vote for a socialist candidate. If these results surprise you, you mayRead More →
Leftists sprinkled magic pixie dust on Disney and made it Marxist. In any case, this is the message currently filtering through the conservative media. To hear conservative commentator Mark Levin put it, “The Magic Kingdom is now a waking asylum.” If you were to take these bogus claims at faceRead More →
I Recently Decided The Kid With One F Is Old Enough To Watch Netflix stranger things. It may or may not be because I wanted to do a rewatch before the season premiere next month and it was a good way to claim living room TV without a fight. GoodRead More →
review of Socialism for soloists by William Edmundson (Polity, 2021) John Rawls was arguably the greatest liberal philosopher of the 20th century. But by the end of his life – he died in 2002, aged eighty-one – he had become a persistent critic of capitalism. In his 2001 book, JusticeRead More →
Many states have laws limiting fees for payday loans, but some payday lenders partner with multiple banks to issue loans whose prices exceed these limits. With these “rent-a-bank” agreements, banks issue loans on behalf of payday lenders, even in states that ban payday loans or only allow them with collateral.Read More →
A divided Germany offered a solid basis for comparison, with a market economy system in the West and a planned economy system in the East. German historian Hubertus Knabe, a leading expert on the history of the GDR, observed: “One of the biggest climate killers in the world was, inRead More →
The biggest, most common attack launched by the GOP is that Democrats are socialists and embrace socialism and all its evils. This has been a very effective strategy because it does not distinguish between democratic socialism as practiced by virtually all western democracies and communist socialism as represented by CubaRead More →
Last-minute declarants endeavor to send their declarations to the Internal Revenue Service by the 2021 tax year deadline on Monday, April 18 — and are likely looking forward to a big check via their tax refund. Some tax firms or other lenders may offer the option of accessing these fundsRead More →
Despite unprecedented extreme weather, droughts, floods and fires increasing every year, we see little or no action from capitalist leaders that matches the urgency of the crisis. Action must be taken immediately to end the use of fossil fuels, restore ecosystems and transform our relationship with the planet to secureRead More →
Our goal at Credible Operations, Inc., NMLS Number 1681276, hereafter referred to as “Credible”, is to give you the tools and confidence you need to improve your finances. Although we promote the products of our partner lenders who pay us for our services, all opinions are our own. If youRead More →
By Carl D. RafothCANFIELD, Ohio – George Gilder, renowned economic theorist and prolific author, recently published an article answering the question: what is capitalism? It traces its meaning back to Karl Marx who defined capital as “embodied in machines and resources.” The word capital derives from the Latin word caputRead More →
Socialism – Facts about our semi-socialist and capitalist democracy Responding to my recent “Charter Schools a Bad Alternative to Public Education”, a few readers who challenged my stance went so far as to accuse me and Democrats of “pushing Satanist ideas and behaviors”. with the recommendation that “a movement inRead More →
By Fred Ezeh Abuja Professor Ganiyat Adejoke Uthman from the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has recommended in his research the adoption of an Islamic economic system in the management of the Nigerian economy. She said the Islamic economic system has provenRead More →
You can attribute just about everything you have touched, eaten or worn today to capitalism. But you can also blame it for some of the world’s worst problems. Is it broken? Or an urgent need to reinvent? Session 2 of TED2022 featured five thought-provoking talks that brought us to someRead More →
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – Kentucky law allows triple-digit interest rates on certain loans. The logic of the 1960s law was simple. Consumers have the option of paying the price in cash or the price on credit, but the price on credit can more than double the total bill. When BigRead More →
What you hear loudly in the street is the ruthless hatred towards Macron within this large amorphous social stratum known as yellow vestsor among those who wince at his arrogance and smugness. Part of the 20% of Corbynist votes for Jean-Luc Mélenchon will revolve around Le Pen during the secondRead More →
The India of the 1980s was a time of intense political turmoil across the country, including armed and disruptive movements widely supported by some constituencies, their demands ranging from statehood to secession. One such move was the call for Gorkhaland, which many Gorkhas – Indian Nepalese living in West Bengal’sRead More →
Design and engineering challenges inherent in developing a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC) will take years, not months, says Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday at the American University of Washington. The event marked the first time Yellen publicly aired his views on digital assets since President Joe BidenRead More →
Corbyn exploits unpaid workers in the name of socialism Marx always said that workers in a capitalist system are exploited for their work, and Corbyn certainly proves that to be true. Labor leader in exile must raise funds for his peace and justice Party Project, and its new Why weRead More →
This week, the Conservative government announced that the UK is set to embrace the cryptocurrency craze, in a bid to attract investors from around the world. Instead of welcoming these spies and speculators, we must expropriate the billionaire class. Chancellor Rishi Sunak recently said Britain is striving to become aRead More →
The problem in Sri Lanka is nationalization, socialist policies with a mix of populism, handouts and handouts, and a controlled economy Sri Lanka is in deep trouble, due to the economic crisis and subsequent public outrage, which has hit the common man hard. Soaring inflation, weak government policies and theRead More →
Slick Cash Loan makes it easy for anyone to get a loan with instant loans online with guaranteed approval. Slick Cash Loan, the leading online loan service renowned for its fast and reliable loan services, now offers online instant loans with guaranteed approval across the United States. People short ofRead More →
review of Revisiting the Marxist Critique of Liberalism: Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights by Igor Shoikhebrod (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) What will communism look like? Anti- or at least non-liberal seems to be the consensus between right and left sections. The former fear that socialists will seek their hard-won freedoms; theRead More →
Environmental activists have argued that the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes clear that governments must ‘say no’ to new fossil fuels and drive economic change to avoid climate breakdown. . The latest IPCC report, released April 4, examines ways to mitigate climate change andRead More →
Environmental activists have argued that the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes clear that governments must ‘say no’ to new fossil fuels and drive economic change to avoid climate breakdown. . The latest IPCC report, released April 4, examines ways to mitigate climate change andRead More →
Will bankruptcy affect my job? A question frequently asked by our clients who are considering declaring bankruptcy is whether or not it will affect their employment. The answer According to 11 U.S. Code § 525, neither a government nor a private employer “shall terminate the employment of a person whoRead More →
Environmental activists said the latest UN climate report makes it clear that governments must say no to new fossil fuels and tackle an economic system that is accelerating us towards climate collapse. The latest IPCC report examines ways to mitigate climate change and follows reports on physical science in AugustRead More →
Understanding the nature of capitalism’s contradictions and crises is central to the question of building a socialist alternative, writes John Clarke Efforts to pretend the global pandemic is over are colliding with the stubborn and deadly reality of its continued spread. The Russian invasion of Ukraine, against the backdrop ofRead More →
The country united states of americaUS Virgin IslandsU.S. Minor Outlying IslandsCanadaMexico, United Mexican StatesBahamas, Commonwealth ofCuba, Republic ofDominican RepublicHaiti, Republic ofJamaicaAfghanistanAlbania, People’s Socialist Republic ofAlgeria, People’s Democratic Republic ofAmerican SamoaAndorra, Principality ofAngola, Republic ofAnguillaAntarctica (the territory south of 60 degrees S)Antigua and BarbudaArgentina, Argentine RepublicArmeniaArubaAustralia, Commonwealth ofAustria, Republic ofAzerbaijan, RepublicRead More →
By Roger McKinneyContributor | Wednesday, March 30, 2022 U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., holds a news conference outside a City Hall on November 6, 2019 in the Bronx borough of New York. | Kena Betancur/Getty Images Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York recently emulated President Biden by whispering aRead More →
Earlier this week AFC Bournemouth published their annual accounts for the year ending June 30, 2021. As was the case with last year’s deposits, the financial accounts have been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, matches behind closed doors and the club’s relegation from the Premier League. In total, Bournemouth wentRead More →
Sex and relationships are important topics in therapy. Whether the problem is conflict with a partner or spouse, the decision of whether or not to stay in a relationship, the pain and confusion after a breakup or divorce, frustrations with dating and single life, or questions about sexuality, therapy canRead More →
Elon Musk, currently the world number one the richest man has always been rich. Born into enormous wealth in South Africa during asideMusk is the son of the half-owner of an emerald mine – the Musk family was so wealthy that a young Elon once walked the streets of NewRead More →
The past year has been inundated with news about funding rounds and product launches related to Earned Wage Access (EWA) in what seems to have become one of the hottest topics in the fintech world in this moment. EWA, also known as First Pay Day, is a financial service offeredRead More →
As the dust settled after the 2020 presidential election, black women were heralded as the backbone of the effort to fight for suffrage and save democracy. In nearly every state, black women have galvanized our collective power to support progressive BIPOC candidates in Congress and in state legislatures. As theRead More →
Five years ago, Oakland filmmaker Yael Bridge set out to make a film about socialism in 21st century America. At the time, she had no idea that Bernie Sanders, the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist Senator from Vermont, would gain popularity or that the Democratic Socialists of America would increase their membershipRead More →
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (NEXSTAR) – Lawmakers celebrated the one-year anniversary of the passage of the Predatory Loan Prevention Act (PLPA) on Wednesday. The PLPA sets a statutory maximum interest rate for consumer loans at 36%. The bill, which was part of the Legislative Black Caucus’ economic equity agenda, passed both housesRead More →
Differences between capitalism and socialism: Capitalism is a political and economic theory postulating that the means of production should be controlled by individuals. It is centered on individuals who own and control the production and distribution of goods and services. Savage capitalism is extreme capitalism, where individuals are free andRead More →
The difference between crony capitalism and pragmatic capitalism Walt Back asks a pertinent and important question: will we become a nation of united Americans? [“When do we become a nation of united Americans?” March 7]. The answer to Back’s question, based on his implicit premise that voting for the so-calledRead More →
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The largest remaining section of the Berlin Wall has been converted into the East Side Gallery at Potsdamer Platz. Photo / Provided, File OPINION When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, neoliberals seized the opportunity and euphorically declared the historic triumph of free market capitalism over socialism. It was nothing.Read More →
Some youth groups from the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria have ushered in a new political movement called We2GedaNG. The group said it was using the platform to fix the country’s failing system. Speaking to reporters in Awka on Saturday, an Oyo State legislator, representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/IWajowa Federal Constituency, Mr. ShinaRead More →
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! progressive representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was mocked on social media on Friday after appearing on Instagram Live and whispering to the camera that “most people don’t know what capitalism is.” “Let me tell you a secret,” the New York Democrat whispered to herRead More →
Oyo State Legislator representing Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/Iwajowa Federal Constituency, Hon. Shina Abiola Peller said on Saturday that about two million three hundred youths across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones have registered with a new political movement, We2GedaNG. the country’s failing system. Peller, speaking to reporters shortly after the official launch of We2geda South-EastRead More →
“When it’s mandatory, everyone has access,” said Rebecca Maxcy, director of the Financial Education Initiative at the University of Chicago. Update March 18, 2022, 9:32 p.m. ET While progress between the states is encouraging, there’s still more to be done, said Nan J. Morrison, president and CEO of the CouncilRead More →
Nevada Congresswoman Annie Black, who was planning to run for the state Senate but changed course to run for Congress, officially filed her case for the 4th District on Wednesday. Black made headlines in 2021 when she resisted demands by the Democratic Assembly leadership that members wear masks on theRead More →
A new brief released by the Employee Benefits Research Institute [EBRI] title “Understanding the financial differences between rural and urban Americans,” found that people living in rural areas were more likely to have lower incomes and assets than those living in urban areas. However, when comparing Americans at the sameRead More →
“The latest study titled “Global Payday Loan Services Market 2022 by Key Players, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2028” released by Affluence Market Report, presents an analysis of the current and future scenario of the global payday loan services market payday loans. ” In this report, a comprehensive analysisRead More →
While Russia is waging war on Ukraine, President Joe Biden and Democratic Party politicians are waging war on America and capitalism. The reduction in domestic oil and gas production has wreaked havoc on trade around the world, as if two years of the pandemic hadn’t hurt us enough. In theRead More →
A payment processor that allegedly helped a bogus discount club scheme debit tens of millions of dollars from consumers without authorization will have to pay $2.3 million and face a permanent ban from working with high-end customers. risk following a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit. According to the FTC’s complaint inRead More →
American oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller gives a penny to a child in this undated photo. Backed by the immense wealth of the founder of Standard Oil, the Rockefeller Foundation was established in 1913 in Albany, New York. For several decades it was the dominant foundation in theRead More →
By Ismail Amla, Executive Vice President, Professional Services, NCR Corporation The benefits of financial inclusion are known and numerous. Households that lack access to bank accounts or relatively affordable mechanisms for receiving, paying, and spending money end up spending a significantly higher percentage of their income on cash-intensive financial options.Read More →
We live in a strange world. John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil, helped provide the energy that powered the American Century from the early 1900s. Today, his grandchildren spend the billions of dollars he gave to the Rockefeller Foundation to attack the same oil and gas industry thatRead More →
Over the past decades, the “real wages” remained generally stagnant while inflation continued to rise. This not only affected workers’ hopes of achieving the ever-elusive “American dream,” but also hampered their ability to hold out until the end of the month without looking for extra cash. That means accepting aRead More →
There is a long history of efforts to combine the advantages of competition and planning. They range from speculative and theoretical analysis of “market socialism” to cooperatives, mutuals and efforts to combine an open economy with a socialist state that began in the former Yugoslavia. There is also a traditionRead More →
Why would anyone want to get out of debt? Think about it. You borrow money. You can use this money now. Then you can pay it back slowly, over time. Who wouldn’t want this deal? You might expect a financial planner to say that everyone should deleverage as soon asRead More →
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Bank towers are shown from Bay Street in Toronto’s financial district, June 16, 2010.Adrien Veczan/The Canadian Press David Ryan is the Managing Director of Edelman Smithfield Canada The stress of the pandemic has frayed the social and economic fabric of Canada. We have witnessed an erosion of trust in CanadianRead More →
OWe live in a strange world. John D. Rockefeller, the founder of Standard Oil, helped provide the energy that powered the American Century from the early 1900s. Today, his grandchildren spend the billions of dollars he gave to the Rockefeller Foundation to attack the same oil and gas industry thatRead More →
The Payday Loans Services Market research report is a unique research guide that gives a total assessment of the Payday Loans Services market outline and covers the current status review and development factors , current market patterns and current situation survey. Sagacious assessment is done to assess the rate ofRead More →
In this case, the children were more than on board. Tristram describes their eldest son Patrick, who helped in the Calais refugee camps, as the most socially conscious of their children. “He said, ‘Dad, this is fantastic. You do realize that’s socialism at work, don’t you? Do you think UncleRead More →
Adam Harmsworth, Coventry Socialist Party Woke Capitalism provides a useful introduction to the well-deserved critique of corporations that co-opt and sabotage progressive movements. Author Carl Rhodes gives us many examples of companies embracing slogans, gimmicks and campaigns on social issues: Ben and Jerry’s “Pecan Resist” flavor with proceeds going toRead More →