A financial system funded by the public for the public good, could create money as a utility for all of us on Main Street, instead of what we have now—The Fed, a profit center for the richest few on Wall Street.
Author: Rickey Gard Diamond
Rickey Gard Diamond’s latest book, Screwnomics, is prompting EconoGirlfriend Conversations around the country, many sponsored by The Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom—US, and the educational non-profit An Economy of Our Own. Learn more at www.screwnomics.org and www.WILPFUS.org.
Fossil Fuel Violence Demands A Righteous-Babe Response
Wall Street is going nuts: Coronavirus has unglued the global economy’s lines of supply, threatening corporate bottom lines. Then, Russia picked the perfect time to fight over oil production with OPEC. It is time to rethink fossil fuel loyalties and the wars it provokes wherever our beautiful earth is drilled, injected and fractured.
Yowling at Trump’s New CAT Policy
U.S. CAT Policy won’t regulate the surprising number of kitty videos we so love on YouTube and Facebook—nor will it urge you to get your pet spayed. But you should worry.
Daddy Warbucks Isn’t Coming to Our Rescue—But Women Economists Will
When the first ever female president of the Economic Policy Institute, Thea Lee, appeared on Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal, she proved that economists can be fully human and funny—and encouraging a whole flank of female economists, notably rare in this still whitest, mostly male and unfunniest realm.
It’s Time to Break Up Race and Gender Monopolies
“No one has it all figured out yet,” says La’Wana Harris about the word “diversity,” to which she’s devoted her career. “Some talk about diversity as inclusion, or diversity as equity, but I like to think diversity is also about belonging. Belonging is a big one.”
Sister, Can You Spare $400?
In Vermont, some capital is in women’s hands. Their numbers are smaller, but they are venturing into new territory with a wider purpose than fat cat profits.
75 Years Later, Women are Finally Half the Sky at Bretton Woods
Seventy-five years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gathered monetary thinkers of the Allied forces—all-male, of course—to a secret meeting in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. When Silicon Valley’s Galia Benartzi organized a Global Economic Visioning Summit to mark the anniversary, she made sure half its speakers were women.
Replacing Privilege with Shared Prosperity
Working at the Mariposa Food Co-op in West Philadelphia exposed Jamila Medley to a new model: No longer helping people, she’s now empowering them to create a thriving co-operative economy.
Collective Justice: Watching Economic Solidarity Take Shape in Mondragon
While the dot-com bubble was bouncing and bursting on Wall Street, Georgia Kelly learned about a corporation in Spain that was owned and governed by its workers. That town’s story changed her own.
Free Market Blarney: How Boston is Working To End the Wage Gap
What does an American city get when it works to address pay inequality?