Alex White https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html “Won by ideas” Blog The economy no longer cares about you The old order is not coming back The fragile realignment Oil and gas war profiteering Do we need wealth taxes? Understanding the One Nation earthquake The Trumpcession about to hit Australia You’ve heard of plutocracy, but what’s plutonomy? What I’m reading (March 2026) Home Australia’s “neo-feudal” inheritance divide What if we abolished limited liability companies? What if we broke up Australia’s monopolies? Divide and rule: the billionaires behind the housing crisis Wealth taxes are critical to reducing toxic inequality What if big businesses don’t need social license? What if capitalism wants you to be poor? Why the market wants you unemployed Crisis of the status quo The stress of US misery Plutonomy vs People How billionaires escape taxes About Alex Some thoughts on same-sex marriage and conscience votes How to get Facebook’s EdgeRank to love your union’s Page The smug dismissal of the pop culture industrial complex Extreme bank profits and the housing affordability crisis Economic fallacies: debt Breaking Through: Essays on the crisis of the status quo What if centrism is a dead-end? What I’m reading (January 2026) How did we get to zombie capitalism? ICE executions and the American Dream The conservative dilemma What if we broke up Coles? What if the AI job-apocalypse is a boardroom trick? Teabonics What I’m reading (Feb 2026) Labor must assert its economic credentials The business of the culture war Why does the Productivity Commission want $7 billion tax cuts for big business? What if wealth taxes were good, actually? What if neoliberalism made everyone angry in 2025 Time to get fit Further concerns about the politics of NationBuilder What if inequality creates right-wing extremism? What if the banks make housing less affordable? Short book review: The Whites of their Eyes by Jill Lepore