Relationships important but no miracles Good relationships are crucial for well-being. A long-term Harvard study with that message, the New York Times recently highlighted. The research supports it. People with warm, stable relationships live longer and happier on average. Isolation, on the contrary, can be as harmful as smoking. More time with family and friends actually increases…
Category: Society
When Bosnia plays in the World Cup, the national team also carries the football history of the labor movement
When Bosnia and Herzegovina enters the 2026 World Cup, it's easy to see it as a footballing saga. A small country with a surprising national team and an often politically depressed, disappointed and poorer population that, for a moment, can gather around something other than corruption, resignation and everyday difficulties. Bosnia's presence in the World Cup is about...
Visitation zones instead of competitiveness
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…
Work for all provides a more stable, state-regulated mixed economy
Work for all is the goal society must have. Brilliant text on the benefits of full employment and its positive side effects. Niklas Blomqvist questions the idea that the market itself can create full employment. For example, Blomqvist points out that attempts to follow this path in the last thirty years have not produced the desired results. He emphasizes that work for…
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…
Good pensions require progressive taxes and adequate government deficits
It is always today's production capacity that pays for today's pensions via taxes. Vote for good pensions and work for an economically, ecologically and socially sustainable future. Pensions require sustainable production A system with sufficient progressive taxes and government deficits/that the government creates money instead of the banks doing it via lending (read about deficits here) can...
Low popularity of benefactor Biden
President Biden has achieved a lot on the economy - especially falling inflation and a great many more jobs. Biden has also won several legislative victories. These will limit the rise in prescription drug prices, expand care options for veterans, slow climate change and rebuild the nation's infrastructure. Still, his popularity ratings are among the lowest in American history except for those of Trump…
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…
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....