Economic Update

What Elections Hide

Updates on LA vote on public bank; contradictions of Trump’s “nationalism;” big business criticism of tariffs; corporations like 7-Eleven use immigration crisis for profits. Major discussion: the urgent social issues that elections ignore or hide.


The electoral commission in Democratic Republic of Congo confirmed yesterday that it was postponing the presidential election scheduled for this Sunday, December 23 to December 30. If the election actual happens, it would be the first democractic transfer of power since the 1960  overthrow Patrice Lumumba, Congo’s first democratically elected Prime Minister. For more We … Continued