Economics & Business

Vladimir Morozov22.01.2026

The USSR’s Monetary System is An Alternative to the Global Money-Lending System. Part 1: The Monetary System of the Stalinist Economy For the past 30-plus years, we’ve all been constantly told that the only viable and effective economic model is the market. The socialist (non-market) model is discussed exclusively in terms of its shortcomings, characteristic […]

Vladimir Morozov12.01.2026

The American president recently unveiled a new strategic vision for America as an energy superpower. What is Trump’s energy superpower based on? New scientific discoveries and American technological leadership in this area? It turns out it’s much more prosaic. Trump, having completely abolished international law, intends to simply seize the planet’s primary oil resources. Well, […]

Vladimir Morozov08.01.2026

Modern financial capitalism is nothing less than a debt economy. And the main component of a debt economy, its “torque,” is credit money. Credit money is qualitatively different from its predecessor, “commodity money,” which had a very specific intrinsic value (labor expended), and a specific commodity (cattle, hides, wheat, etc.) served as the so-called “universal […]

Robert Reich10.12.2025

As you know by now, I don’t like raising big problems without offering big potential solutions. The big problem I want to talk about today is that CEO pay has become utterly untethered from reality. When I was a young man in the 1960s and ’70s, CEOs typically made 20 to 30 times the pay […]

Vladimir Morozov05.12.2025

Russian oligarchs are frantically trying to sell their remaining foreign assets. Even at a loss, they’re trying to sell them, not give them away. However, overall, things aren’t going so well. Back in 2024, large Russian companies were first faced with sanctions on the purchase of equipment and consumables for scheduled maintenance of their imported […]

Robert Reich25.11.2025

The richest man on earth owns X. The family of the second-richest man owns Paramount, which owns CBS — and could soon own Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns CNN. The third-richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth-richest man owns The Washington Post and Amazon MGM Studios. Another billionaire owns Fox News, The Wall […]

Vladimir Morozov20.11.2025

An IMF Set-Up, or What Should Nabiullina Do Now? The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published the results of its study: inflation targeting, which for decades it considered a universal price stabilization tool, doesn’t work everywhere and always. These findings are contained in the IMF report “How Inflation Was Managed in 2022: A Comparative Analysis […]

Robert Reich19.11.2025

If we don’t raise wages at the bottom, we’re all cooked. The Big Mac has a problem that’s partly due to the corporation that makes Big Macs. The Big Mac has a big problem. According to the CEO of McDonald’s, fast food chains saw a double-digit dip in visits from lower- and middle-income customers in […]

Vladimir Morozov08.11.2025

Who will win in the economic war against Russia depends solely on Russia itself. All Western anti-Russian sanctions are based on the premise that the Russian economy is an integral part of the global dollar system, acting as a global raw materials periphery. The main goal of the sanctions is to cut off our country […]

Vladimir Morozov31.10.2025

The Central Bank has so “targeted” itself on inflation at any cost that the entire real sector of the domestic economy is being decimated. – Did the patient sweat before his death? – Yes, he did. – That’s very good! This text, once considered a joke about a certain type of doctor, is becoming very […]

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The USSR’s Monetary System

Energy Sovereignty and Technological Leadership

A Monetary System Based on Debt

How Can Outrages CEO Pay Be Stopped?

There’s No Free Cheese, But in a Mousetrap

A Toxic Combo — Billionaires and the Media

Inflation Targeting Isn’t Everything

The USA Needs to Raise Wages

An Economic War Against Russia

What Should You Do When the Head Doctor is a Pathologist?

The Rise of AI Populism

The Documentary Film Naza and Its Revelations

It’s Cold There

Japan’s Myopia Epidemic