In visitation zones, the police must be able to stop and search people without having a specific suspicion of crime. The idea is that it will make the streets safer, but many are against it. Critics believe that it can lead to abuse and violations of people's rights. This is especially true if it is used against certain groups based on skin color…
Category: Excess
S new social analysis a flop
S's new social analysis is for immigration but is it and everything else it is in a way that is most repressive. The class analysis and the workers' needs are absent. S is the big red-green society-supporting party. It must abandon the idea of "saving-in-the-barns". This austerity goal is only focused on subsidizing the wealth of the very few at the expense of…
Biden's fiscal policy strengthens the economy and reduces the gaps
In an age where news headlines often dominate with negative news, it is important to also highlight the positive events. Biden's expansive fiscal policy is yielding results. The latest report from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department shows a gratifying trend break in the US economy. It is a development that must not be overlooked. Increased prosperity for all Between…
The truth about immigration
Integration is an investment – not a cost. Although it sometimes takes up to 5-8 years for refugee immigrants to get a firm grip on the labor market, it is significantly shorter than for many native Swedes without higher education. Young Swedes often try their luck in their 20s and 30s between temporary jobs, unemployment, and studies before they…
No government deficits – society's unnecessary straitjacket
Vote for bigger government deficits! Deficits are part of how the state regulates the market and protects citizens and nature. Neoliberalism attacks this. How is money created? Can we afford to work? Sweden's Riksbank's prize in economic science in memory of Alfred Nobel in 2022 suggested that banks have an important role for the social economy even if this can…
Interest rate increases do not bite today's profit-seeking inflation
Interest rate increases do not bite profit-driven inflation. Big capital exploits its strength. Many companies have a monopoly position. They use this to push prices up faster than wages. This is how Big Capital exploits the crisis after Ukraine and the bottleneck effects after Corona. There are now bottlenecks on e.g. economically important semiconductors and other. This means that for the production of certain goods it does not…
Trickle-down economics has reached the end of the road
The absurdity becomes almost comical. Simona Mohamsson wants to make Sweden a tax haven for billionaires and double the number of billionaires by 2036, despite the fact that Sweden is already one of the world's most favorable countries for very large fortunes. TV4, SVT and Sveriges Radio have reported on the Liberals' goal of 1,000 billionaires, and economists have already expected…
How to save equality and the environment/nature all over the world
Global equality and the environment - how do we save these? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a macroeconomic theory that proposes that governments with their own currency have the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money on desirable sectors of the economy. Sustainably productive investments increase budget space According to MMT, government spending is limited by inflation and not by public debt....
The left party for welfare, climate and industry
First: the public sector must take back control of welfare from the market. It is when politics takes responsibility that we can have functioning care, school and care, full employment and secure jobs. Ever since the 1990s, both s and m governments have privatized and introduced market systems. The Left Party stopped the latest such attempts when they dropped the proposal to…
Interest rates do not control the economy
Interest rates do not control the economy. This makes the central banks' monetary policy an extremely ineffective and blunt tool. Jussi Ora has done the following excellent video interview with economics professor Richard Werner. Werner has examined the historical empirical evidence on whether interest rates control the development of the economy. The result was that interest rates do not control this. Fiscal policy is a much more effective tool for governing…