US Loses Nearly 4 Million Jobs to China Since WTO Entry
More evidence, this time via China, on the costs globalization imposed on American workers.
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Brexit D-Day
The big Brexit day is here.
Read more...How Iowa Chooses National Convention Delegates and What That Means For Us
Explaining the Iowa Caucus Rube Goldberg machine.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/30/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: #2019-nCoV (auto manufacturing, US jobs), Biden (labor, electability), Sanders executive orders, Bloomberg as Crassus, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren, Trump, Iowa, construction, Samsung, Boeing, Nissan, the Fed, carbon footprints, exploding batteries, minimum wage, sex work, psilocybin, internak monologues
Read more...Secular Stagnation: Demand Is Indeed the Culprit
Economists’ bad medicine is a significant factor in our present stagnation.
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Michael Hudson on the History of Debt Cancellation, Austerity in Europe, January 2020
Michael Husdon reviews the key themes of his recent book, ……and Forgive Them Their Debts, and discusses German austerity.
Read more...#MeToo Shamefully Nowhere To Be Found as SEIU Not Only Refuses to Fire Staffers Charged With Multiple Instances of Sexual Misconduct, but Retaliates Against Press and Whistleblowers
SEIU is acting like thugs. Please help reporter Mike Elk who has exposed more of their dirty linen than they can stand to have aired.
Read more...The War in Libya Will Never End
Looking at the gap between posturing and positions in Libya
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 1/29/2020
Today’s Water Cooler: Polling (national, IA, NH, SC, CA), Bloomberg and dog, Buttigieg and staff, Sanders and worried Democrats, Trump rally, impeachment, employment, Bitcoin, Salesforce, Apple, Tesla, automotive supply chain, Wuhan corona virus, the environmental cost of email
Read more...How CEOs, Experts and Philosophers See the World’s Biggest Risks Differently
Trying to understand CEOs’ blinkered view of risks.
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Dr. Victor Shih: Coronavirus MUCH Worse Than SARS
A downbeat but persuasive take on the likely progression of the coronavirus.
Read more...Anti-Abortion Laws: A War Against Poor Women
Abortion as a class issue.
Read more...The Dead Zone Downstream: Gulf Edition
The cost of modern agriculture, as measured by a growing oxygen-free patch in the Gulf of Mexico.
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