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Analysis
What you need to know about the Kroger-Albertsons merger
The pending $25 billion merger of the Kroger and Albertsons grocery chains threatens to continue the trend of monopolistic price-gouging…
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Analysis
Trump’s VP pick JD Vance: Con man working for Wall Street
Vance, author of the book “Hillbilly Elegy,” pretends to be a champion of working people.
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Analysis
Project 2025 gets head start with SCOTUS ruling overturning Chevron doctrine
The 1984 Chevron doctrine is the basis for many legal decisions upholding regulations coming from laws such as the 1938…
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Analysis
Behind Wall Street’s favorite scheme: What is a stock buyback?
These same corporations are constantly exclaiming that they must freeze or lower wages in order to survive, yet they never…
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Analysis
First Republic: the collapse and the crisis
In other words, the collapse of First Republic Bank is a sign of the rot at the center of capitalist…
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Analysis
Civics class for radicals: The Federal Reserve
The Fed is an instrument for the capitalist ruling class to manage the turbulence of their system in a way…
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Features
Silicon Valley Bank: Canary in the coal mine? The banking crisis is a capitalist crisis
No matter what federal government says, this is a bailout and taxpayers are on the hook.
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Analysis
Poisoning America for profit: A brief history of Norfolk Southern’s greed
The East Palestine disaster is an expression of capitalism’s single-minded drive for greater and greater profit
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Analysis
Equity firm will loot Albertsons grocery chain in merger with Kroger despite impact on workers, communities
The merger between Albertsons and Kroger illustrates capitalism’s natural tendency toward monopoly.
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The Socialist Program
Billionaires Order Mass Layoffs of Tech Workers
Brian and Prof. Richard Wolff discuss the mass layoffs that billionaire CEOs at Meta (formerly Facebook), Twitter, Amazon, and others…
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