Amazon has said its new headquarters in New York will create 25,000 jobs for residents—a claim one protester derided as “smoke and mirrors”
Read more...Putting CalPERS under the hot lights for its questionable private equity plans.
Read more...Western countries insist both on “free trade” with poor countries and farm subsidies for themselves.
Read more...As the Brexit clock is running down, so too are the available plays.
Read more...CalPERS claims for its private equity “new business model” don’t add up. That suggests there are other motives.
Read more...Why to be leery of philanthropy, particularly when practiced by squillionaires.
Read more...Sadly, an upbeat take on what “green” policies might means for jobs greatly understates the depth of economic restructuring needed to reduce the pace of climate change.
Read more...Almost everyone agrees on the analysis of what caused the yellow jacket movement: the growth of inequalities, the marginalization of certain regions and social categories, austerity and neoliberal politics. Then accounts diverge.
Read more...Australia looks to be on the verge of a nasty unwind of its housing bubble. A plunge would damage not only its banks but also retirement funds, since banks play an outsized role in the Australian stock market.
Read more...May looks to be hoist on her Brexit petard.
Read more...Debunking the notion of meritocracy.
Read more...Why May oddly matters even more than before.
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