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View ArticleTrump Infrastructure Plan = Developer Welfare
SHARMINI PERIES: It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore. While protestors and police are clashing on the inaugural parade route in Washington, D.C., the newly...
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‘J is for Junk Economics’: Michael Hudson on TRNN (2/5), February 28, 2017. Trump’s infrastructure plan will privatize all the benefits for the financiers and make sure that the population at large...
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The Real News Network, February 13, 2018. SHARMINI PERIES: It’s The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore. President Trump presented his infrastructure plan on Monday. The...
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Monopoly capitalism and models of resistance. This week, author Michael Hudson on Donald Trump’s fake economics. It’s all coming up on the Laura Flanders Show, the place where the people who say it...
View ArticleSimon Patten on Public Infrastructure and Economic Rent Capture
As published in American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 70, No. 4 (October, 2011). *The author acknowledges funding from Prosper Australia for this article. ABSTRACT. Reflecting the...
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