The crash of 2008 was supposed to augur the end of ultraspeculative financial capitalism. But financial actors have actually gone from strength to strength since then, and fictitious capital is a ...

For half a century, bad economics has provided intellectual cover for bad government. Those in charge preferred economists who would validate free-market fantasies, even though they had been disproven ...

Michael A. McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools is about the power that finance exerts over people. He inquires into the problem and how it could realistically be solved: Why has finance capitalism left ...

River Nice is a self-proclaimed anti-capitalist financial planner based in Philadelphia. They told Insider they work with clients who want to be as ethical as possible in what they call an unethical ...

“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote Mark Fisher in his 2009 book Capitalist Realism. This sense pervades our culture like a dense fog, helping to create the ...

Capital includes assets like cash, machinery, and patents used to create value. Businesses acquire capital through equity, debt, or retaining earnings. Capital investment decisions are based on the ...

Something interesting happens when people achieve financial security: Money often stops delivering the sense of purpose they expected. Not in a "money doesn’t matter" way, but in a "this isn’t the ...