Business decisions made in the interest of “maximising shareholder value” have caused mass layoffs, environmental catastrophes, an endless list of corporate frauds, and record inequality in the workplace. The very same CEO who made millions of dollars by being the first champion of “maximising shareholder value” in the 60’s called it the dumbest idea in the world, and something that could rot capitalism to its core.

After two major outages in as many weeks — including the CrowdStrike crash — alarm bells are ringing about the world's overreliance on Microsoft. Andrew Chang breaks down what happened, who's to blame and digs into just how much of our lives are connected to Microsoft.

In 2013, anthropologist David Graeber wrote an article for an obscure, left-wing magazine. It spawned a book – and a turn of phrase – that became a cultural phenomenon.

Investor returns imply that the welfare of future human beings is close to irrelevant

The founder of the now-shuttered law firm Mossack Fonseca was among those cleared in the long-awaited ruling that took more than two months to come down.

Neoliberalism isn’t just a set of economic precepts—it’s also an architecture of laws passed to reinforce those precepts. Those laws must be changed.

James Meek on the housing crisis

In This Video We’ll Discuss Recent Trends In Thrifting And Why It’s On The Decline

The established financial world order of the past 50 years is now transitioning to a new and unknown paradigm as the petrodollar agreement between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia was allowed to expire this past Sunday.

Giving a regular cash payment to the entire world population has the potential to increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by 130%, according to a new analysis published June 7 in the journal Cell Reports Sustainability. Researchers suggest that charging carbon emitters with an emission tax could help fund such basic income program while reducing environmental degradation.

This 2009 entertaining documentary film explores the history of banking, the selling out of the prosperity of Canada, the clearance sale of Canadian businesses and the political liquidation of public infrastructures to the multi-national corporate oligarchy. How has this led to the biggest economic crash / recession / depression in Canadian history? Could it have something to do with our politicians listening to international bankers and corporations instead of the people Canada? How does the Canadian banking system really work? How does the central Bank of Canada compare with the American Federal Reserve?

Impartial, data driven AI models could be an appealing replacement for biased , egotistical CEOs — and cheaper, too.

Americans say they are scaling back on their fast food intake, and the vast majority considers those on-the-go meals as a luxury due to high prices, a new survey reveals.

Captalism is a cancer for humanity's excistence in general.

With inflation affecting the price of food, you might wonder if expensive sandwiches are worth it.

"You all have done an amazing job ushering in a new era of success for this company. So amazing, in fact, that we have no choice but to let you all go."

Concerns are growing over the effects of a warming climate on production and the danger of high grocery prices getting embedded into Australia’s economy

The Spider’s Web: Britain's Second Empire, is shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions and Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of international finance. How did this come about, and what impact does it have on the world today?