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NVIDIA’s $150 billion buyback plan raises the question of who benefits when corporate cash is spent propping up share prices. Behind the AI boom lies a system that rewards executives and investors while starving productive investment and weakening resilience.

The collapse of America’s political center isn’t a mystery. What looks like a sudden political crisis is really the result of an economy that’s been abandoning ordinary workers for decades.

Silicon Valley promises abundance, but corporate America is built for extraction. The underlying operating system is stuck on making big shareholders rich the expense of everyone else. It’s time for a reboot. *From the “AI and the Future of the American Worker,” a series on how artificial intelligence is impacting labor, power, and the meaning of work. (Read Part 1 of this article here).

Europe’s new fiscal rules still bind policy to fragile estimates of potential output. For Italy, targeting lower unemployment could sustain stronger growth, improve deficit outcomes, and expose the self-defeating logic of austerity when debt is measured against a stagnating economy.

Central bank money is still accounted for as debt, a legacy of an earlier monetary order. Treating sovereign money as equity would clarify central bank balance sheets, strengthen institutional transparency, and better prepare monetary systems for future digital-era design choices.

Less capital, more risk, familiar consequences. The latest move on big-bank rules suggests that too big to fail was never solved, only deferred.

A case for tackling the corporate machinery driving extreme wealth, and the reforms that could truly curb it.

Venezuela is caught between economic collapse, foreign intervention, and the invisible machinery of the global economy.

William Hartung and Ben Freeman, authors of Trillion Dollar War Machine, talk with INET’s Lynn Parramore about America’s runaway defense spending and its increasingly alarming human toll

The soaring costs of city life appear to be sending urban voters toward progressive leaders who promise relief, both in the U.S. and globally.