Market Mania
The history of speculation is replete with burst bubbles.
519 Article(s) by: Editors
Selling Settlement
Real estate developers make massive profits off Israeli land seizures — and encourage brazen settlement building deep in the West Bank.
Holy Profits
The mirage of Islamic banking.
Gambling on the Green Transition
The EU’s market for carbon credits is still a market — and it’s plagued by fraud and speculation.
A Sweatshop in Your Pocket
Crypto-based video games like Axie Infinity are no fun for the Filipinos who play them for a living.
Director Alex Gibney on Dark Money
The documentarian speaks to Jacobin about The Dark Money Game, his new HBO series on the corrosive effects of Citizens United.
Issue 58: Dossier
We have all the vocabulary you need to score big on your Robinhood app.
Blue Devils
More than half of the top 15 crypto-PAC-backed candidates during the 2024 campaign season were Democrats.
Wannabe Gordon Gekkos
Are you missing the point by idolizing them?
In Carbon We Trust
In Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future, a global currency backed by carbon removal turns speculation into salvation.
Five Books on Speculation
As history and literature are quick to remind us, many a get-rich-quick scheme has ended in sorrow.
Fruit of the Union
Union assets have skyrocketed while membership remains largely stagnant.
DJ D-Sol’s Double Life
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon knows how to drop a beat. But could he handle a drop in the markets?
Elon’s Slash-and-Burn Operation
DOGE has cut millions of dollars’ worth of grants in every state.
State of the Art
At the height of the NFT craze, the cost of some digital art surpassed that of the great masters’.
Billionaire Backtracking
Bill Ackman, one of Trump’s wealthiest backers, has struggled to keep his story straight when it comes to supporting the president’s economic policy.
New Podcast Series: Histories of the Palestinian Left
Red Star Over Palestine, a history podcast from Jacobin Radio, looks at the different strands of the Palestinian left and the role of figures like Emile Habibi, Leila Khaled, and Ghassan Kanafani in Palestinian politics and culture.
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