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- utopian1
- If the Mouse is the symbol of Disney why is it poor?palimpsest
- The Recession is near. Most of these cuts barely bring employment back to pre-pandemic levels, so it's not as earth shattering as headlines make it sound.formed
- I thought the recession was already here.palimpsest
- Man... We had not yet recovered from the previous recession, me at leastOBBTKN
- Gnash1
- Looks like all the fellas in shoreditch...shapesalad
- Funnily enough, it's very close to how I imagined you looked Shapefadein11
- gnash is constantly triggered by people with coloured hair. he can't help himself, like Tourettes lolface_melter
- The hair is just the icingGnash
- personal pronouns are..autoflavour
- hotroddy9
To honor my comrade
- utopian2
Norfolk Southern Boosted Shareholder Payouts 4,500%, Slashed Workforce 33% Prior To Ohio Disaster.
- MrT2
Just finished this, I'd love to know what others thought if they have. It's occasionally a bit jargontastic but well written and made a lot of sense.
Before anyone shouts commie, the general gist is that democracy and capitalism are vital to each other, but not in their current forms.
Martin Wolff is the FT's chief economics commentator and the blurb says he's as likely as anyone to be read by political and business leaders. And some twat on QBN.
- *WolfMrT
- Sounds like more of the same "it's not capitalism, it's corporatism" apologetics.i_monk
- It's not that. The deterioration of democracy has coincided the excesses of modern capitalism and they both need adjusting, is the gist.MrT
- If you think Trump or Johnson were good for politics and share buybacks are the best use of company profits then you'll be challenged.MrT
- utopian2
- could the increase in productivity account for the investment in robotics and machinery?hotroddy
- theft.jpgi_monk
- I'm sure that's what they said about the printing presshotroddy
- hotknobby economicsutopian
- would it make you feel better if they paid the robots more?hotroddy
- its to do with te founding of te world economic forum and globalisation in 1974. companies around te world started to exploit their staff and move depts overseatrooperbill
- shapesalad0
Who will bailout the bail-outers?
- shapesalad2
Facebook parent company Meta confirms 10,000 layoffs in coming months...
- utopian1
Capitalism in a Nutshell
- Video unavailable.shapesalad
- Just watching this. Scary stuff.instrmntl
- Continuity1
"SVB collapse may be start of ‘slow rolling crisis’, warns BlackRock boss"
"The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank could just be the start of “a “slow rolling crisis” in the US financial system with “more seizures and shutdowns coming”, the chief executive of the world’s largest asset manager has warned.
The CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, also predicted in a letter to investors and company bosses that inflation would persist and rates continue to rise, trends that both contributed to SVB’s collapse."
