Increased mortality in Sweden 2024: Effects of austerity measures and lack of environmental policy Intro Deaths in Sweden have increased significantly in 2024, even exceeding the levels from 2020 during the pandemic. The austerity policy in healthcare and a deficient environmental policy are pointed out as contributing causes. **Main text:** In 2024, mortality in Sweden has risen significantly, even though the pandemic is now…
Category: Security
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…
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...
Brahmins, the chancellery right and the small folk
Probably Brahmins or the right wing of the Chancellery are a problem within the left movement. Can the authorities understand the small people when the class divides shine? The Brahmins and the time that moved At the same time, a lot of workers work for 20000-25000 full time. While many graduates earn 60000 a month or significantly more. It provides completely different opportunities to…
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
Comedian Jonathan Pie shows with pinpoint brilliance in the video below how Trickle-down economics with his mantra: "Help the rich! Punish the poor!” not working. Trickle-down economics does not build a strong economy nor a strong welfare. Put simply, it leads to a very difficult existence for those who have the least. Even many high achievers…
Normal inflation means both rising prices and wages
The last year's inflation has mostly meant rising prices. Wages and welfare have not kept up. Result: record-breaking cash register at e.g. ICA and many energy companies. Politicians especially within the right but also within the social democratic movement and trade unions contribute. They urge the wage earners not to demand compensation for increased prices. This is because our inflation…
Freedom, equality and good jobs for all are needed if the red-greens are to regain power
Freedom and security mean a lot to the people of Sweden. It is disgusting that welfare becomes ethnically demarcated. We can afford and have an ethical responsibility to have refugee immigration, but it must be done in the right way without economic neoliberalism. But the election and the blue-brown's Tidö agreement show so far that if the red-green are to rule again,...
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....