Tired of slick pundits telling us how the economy works? Looking for economics for people who wear “boots not suits?” Well, here it is. From their Facebook Page . . .
“We’re done letting billionaires and lobbyists write the story. Roughcut tells it straight – how every policy, every deal, every dollar really lands on working folks. Loud. Gritty. Unfiltered. Forever working class, and never kissing ass.”
This is a video featuring Lee Calvin, a country musician and “folk economist” from Red Lodge Montana. Calvin talks about people criticizing farmers because so many of them voted for Trump. It’s just three minutes long and well worth a listen.
Check Rough Cut Media
On YouTube– ww.youtube.com/@RoughcutMediaNetwork
On Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579181833658
Good vid, but let’s be clear. Corporation is a bit of a misnomer. A better term is private equity. They are buying up literally everything including land and real estate. Once they own all the houses, we become a nation of renters. And it’s happening as we speak. Just ask anyone who lives in a trailer park. Here in Great Falls, private equity bought one of the nicer courts and raised lot rent over night by seven hundred dollars, for no reason at all. No one could afford that. And they continually send inquiries to literally everyone asking if they want to sell their homes. They essentially have unlimited money, and much of it of suspicious origin. Who knows what foreign countries or entities are buying up America? It really is time to regulate these criminals while we still have something worth saving, for once it’s gone I fear we’re not getting it back.
On a side note, I see that Great Falls is getting at Panera bread store. I’m confused as to how, for they have been bought up and are closing throughout the rest of the country. Doesn’t make sense. Their quality has apparently gone to total crap according to reports.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_A_Th4aj_0
Health care? Forget it. Been to a hospital or nursing home lately? It’s all about profit. No actual care going on. Nursing homes are closing around the country. Who knows where the old folks will go. Home with their kids? I doubt it. When you squeeze all the profit you can out of a hospital or nursing home, something’s got to give. And it does. It’s ugly. You won’t even be able to die correctly, because most of the funeral homes have all been bought up by private equity too. Maybe cardboard coffins next!
https://crooksandliars.com/2023/12/serious-errors-rose-after-private-equity
The tech billionaires are destroying democracy, but they never really cared for it anyway. They prefer what they call technocracy, with them in charge. And there’s only a handful of them. A good article follows:
“Across the US, electricity prices are rising more than twice as fast as the overall cost of living. The main driver of costs is the enormous electricity demand of over 1,000 new data centers, built mostly for artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Each data center, depending on its size, requires anywhere from a few kilowatts up to 100 megawatts of power (enough to power a medium-sized city). Installations of new data centers are growing at more than 10% annually; at that rate, the total number of data centers will double in less than seven years. Indeed, the International Energy Agency expects global electricity demand from data centers to double by the end of this decade, when it will total more than the entire electricity demand of Japan. Goldman Sachs Research predicts that 60% of this increased demand will be met by fossil fuel sources.”
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/richard-heinberg/115560/what-s-driving-the-electricity-price-hike-and-what-can-we-do-about-it