Economics

Strange lessons from the Netflix show ‘How To Get Rich’

Economists believe the equivalent of the sun going around the Earth, with far worse consequences

Exponential growth on a finite planet does not end well, whatever form it takes

Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be paid

We’re making asteroids of ourselves

This time by the Americans and the IMF

The economic equivalent of blood-letting

A note from a dead future

Obscene profits are the greatest market inefficiency

And its continuing zombie existence, eating brains

And how ‘The Economy’ lives and dies

Get right with god, with the earth, and with your community

As illustrated with 25 Economist covers

We should quit, but even slowing down gives us the shakes

The neoliberal logic that destroys public goods

Sri Lanka is a systemic collapse, and you live in the same system too

Sri Lanka was the first South Asian country to neoliberalize, and the first to fall

My experience in a visa line

China is only 10% of Sri Lanka debt. Where do you think the rest is from?

To satisfy the inflation gods, there must be blood

‘Food insecurity’ is just a fancy word for famine

And how it’s coming for you

GDP is a dead end. We’ve got to go back and start over

Bitcoin got so mainstream that it’s drowning in it

From slavery to wage-slavery to fast fashion

Beggars at my doorstep, bowing before the wrong person

The movement of caste

Geologically speaking

How economists are the worst

And how they’re both artificial life

It’s prosperity for the rich, austerity for the poor

And 7 common-sense alternatives for Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka needs to make real changes to the real economy

Stock markets are just gambling, and they’ve bet the family house

And how ‘the economy’ is bullshit also

Sri Lanka needs to build its way out of crisis, not borrow our way into the next one

If you’re wondering what shortages and instability are like, lemme tell you

America values old people at home and dead people abroad

We have 13 hour powercuts now, and people are enraged

America’s car-driven development was a Ponzi scheme, and it’s all coming down

How American poverty looks to a Sri Lankan

You can only sanction and steal so much

They’re just gamblers holding racing slips

Blowing their own brains out with a golden gun

When the economy crashes, so will US democracy

How GDP can go up while people are dying

Sometimes the simplest way to move forward is to keep building towers and crashing them.

That’s me in the corner, losing my religion

They’ve just given up

History, inequality, and yelling