Will Trump’s Firing of FBI Director James Comey Be His Saturday Night Massacre? (Updated)
James Comey is out. What does this mean for Trump?
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Immiseration Revisited: The Four Phases of Working Time
Immiseration theory, or why employers aren’t nicer to workers even though they become less productive the longer their workday.
Read more...Chicago Shows How Charter School Profiteering Bleeds Public Schools Without No Performance Improvement and Higher Segregation
Chicago as a case study in charter school rent extraction.
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 4
More on how neoliberal policies around the world have hurt labor.
Read more...Hoisted from E-Mail: Puzzling Out the UK’s Shambolic Approach to Brexit
Trying to make sense of the UK’s Brexit pathology.
Read more...Compassionate Capitalism in the Middle Ages: Profit and Philanthropy in Medieval Cambridge
More evidence that “capitalism” comes in more and less predatory forms.
Read more...Andrew Bacevich: What Obsessing About Trump Causes Us To Miss
Why fixating on Trump has the convenient effect of shifting attention away from other important topics. Cui bono?
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Book Review: Game of Mates
A new book. Game of Mates, documents how rentier capitalism and soft corruption operate in Australia. Many of its findings apply to the US.
Read more...Growing Inequality Under Global Capitalism
The benefits of capitalism are accruing even more to a very few at the top.
Read more...NY Times Lets a Charter School Propagandist Distort the Facts on Its Op-Ed Page
Quelle surprise! Card carrying neoliberal David Leonhardt of the New York Times twists facts to try to make a case for charter schools.
Read more...Is the Great China Crash Upon Us?
No large economy has made a crisis-free transition from being investment/export led to consumption led. Is China finally starting its Big One?
Read more...Private Equity Clutching Pearls Over Sweden Ending Carried Interest Loophole
Has Sweden become the mouse that roared at private equity?
Read more...Why Are The Oil Markets Crashing?
Sunny predictions for oil prices in 2017 are looking a tad premature.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Honeymoon of the Generals in the Age of Trump – Wolfowitz on McMaster, Mattis
Trump has turned conduct of his wars over to neocon mad dogs like Paul Wolfowitz that even hawkish Reagan made sure to keep out of power.
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