In fact, those companies’ stock buybacks show what’s right with the American economy. If General Electric had invested more money in its own declining businesses, it would have lost more money for its ...

In the three decades after World War II, America became the first predominantly middle-class country in the world and our poverty rate was cut in half. Americans experienced what scholars describe as ...

This is the second of a three-part series exploring the building rivalry between cryptocurrencies and Wall Street. The first part is here. A parallel financial system is forming outside the incumbent ...

This new architecture distorts the risk landscape in ways that socialize losses, while privatizing profits and control.

KUALA LUMPUR and PENANG, Jun 11 2019 (IPS) – The emergence and growth of financialization from the 1980s has been driven by several factors operating at various levels – national and international, ...

A new word has emerged in the lexicon of the new economy - financialization- defined as the “growing scale and profitability of the finance sector at the expense of the rest of the economy and the ...

Twenty years ago, Science celebrated “a revolution that is fundamentally altering the way the haves of the world assist the have-nots”: Governments and philanthropies were donating tens of billions of ...

Prior to 1980, the financial industry’s role was to fund business and enable investment. But over the years, a new financial strategy has emerged: financialization. It is defined by University of Iowa ...

Free-market capitalism says that the only purpose of business is to create shareholder value and that the unfettered market can regulate itself. In the last 30 years, that definition changed to, “the ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/soundings.103.2.0264 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/soundings.103.2.0264 Copy URL The capitalist conspiracy that unfolds in New York ...

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