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Private Equity Turned Apartments Into Profit Widgets—Then Tenants Paid the Price

August 31, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Private Equity Turned Apartments Into Profit Widgets—Then Tenants Paid the Price

A deadly Syracuse fire and years of violations expose a larger problem: financialized housing can reward revenue growth while tenants struggle for heat, safety, and repairs.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Affordable Housing, Apartment Safety, capitalism, corporate greed, Corporate landlords, Economic Justice, Financialized Housing, healthcare reform, Housing Crisis, Housing Inequality, Letitia James, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, Nob Hill Apartments, private equity, Private Health Insurance, Rent Crisis, Syracuse, Tenant Rights, Wall Street

Elect Democrats—But Should Hakeem Jeffries Be Speaker If He Rejects Medicare for All?

August 18, 2026 By Egberto Willies

Elect Democrats—But Should Hakeem Jeffries Be Speaker If He Rejects Medicare for All?

Elect Democrats to stop MAGA, but don’t surrender progressive accountability. Jeffries’ rejection of Medicare-for-All raises a serious question about who should lead the House.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: 2026 Midterm Elections, Corporate Democrats, corporate power, Data for Progress, Democratic Establishment, Democratic Leadership, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Economic Populism, Hakeem Jeffries, Healthcare Costs, healthcare reform, Independents, MAGA, Medicare For All, Medicare for All 2026, political accountability, Private Health Insurance, Progressive Democrats, Progressive Politics, Reuters Ipsos, single-payer healthcare, Speaker of the House, Universal Healthcare, working class

The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need

August 2, 2026 By Egberto Willies

The Capitalist Veto: Why America Cannot Build What Its People Need

Solar waits, patients suffer, and workers sit idle while corporations demand maximum extraction. This exposes the grand economic con behind “free markets.”

Filed Under: General Tagged With: America’s Grand Economic Con, capitalism, Climate Crisis, corporate greed, Democratic Economy, drug prices, Economic fraud, Economic Inequality, Electrical Grid, Fossil Fuel Subsidies, fossil fuels, green energy, Healthcare Profiteering, infrastructure, Insurance Denials, Job Creation, Medicare Advantage, Medicare For All, NIH research, Oil Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Politics Done Right, Prescription Drugs, Private Health Insurance, Privatized Profit, Profit Blocks Progress, progressive economics, public investment, renewable energy, rooftop solar, Socialized Risk, solar energy, Traditional Medicare, Unemployment

America Already Pays for Medicare for All—Wall Street Keeps the Difference

July 20, 2026 By Egberto Willies

America Already Pays for Medicare for All—Wall Street Keeps the Difference

America pays more for worse healthcare because corporate middlemen extract wealth from illness. Medicare for All offers universal care at a lower total cost.

Filed Under: General Tagged With: Administrative Waste, Copays, corporate greed, Deductibles, Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Health Insurance Profits, Healthcare Costs, healthcare reform, Insurance Denials, Medical Debt, Medicare, Medicare For All, Out-of-Network Care, Patient Rights, Politics Done Right, Private Health Insurance, Progressive Politics, single-payer healthcare, Universal Healthcare, working class

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