“Middle Class” Once Meant Stability and Now Means Fragility
The middle class used to be the bedrock of American institutions. Now its members are coping with an uncertain future.
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TD Bank: America’s Most Inconvenient Bank
Why you should not bank at TD Bank.
Read more...Outsourcing Giant Interserve with 65,000 Employees Collapses
Another UK outsourcing implosion in just over a year….what gives?
Read more...A Way-Too-Early Handicapping of the 2020 Presidential Race
2020 is already in the news. so you might as well start working on your scoresheet!
Read more...Mars or Mercury Redux: How Geopolitics Influence Bilateral Trade Agreements
Quelle surprise! US trade agreements depend more on the US being a reliable military ally than many like to think.
Read more...Another Way the Rich Get Richer: US Indicts Fifty for College Admissions Fraud
Federal prosecutors indicted fifty people yesterday for college admissions fraud at several elite institutions, including Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale. Serious discussion of how college admissions procedures foster inequality is long overdue.
Read more...Fracking 2.0 Was a Financial Disaster, Will Fracking 3.0 Be Different?
The latest installment in Justin Mikulka’s excellent series on fracking. The industry continues to promote new and improved saviors – this time, it’s Microsoft – to rescue it from an inconvenient truth: no one’s making any money, despite the high environmental costs incurred.
Read more...What’s New About Fake News?
Musing on why the level of crude propagandizing known as fake news has gotten worse.
Read more...Boeing Crapification: Second 737 Max Plane Within Five Months Crashes Just After Takeoff
Another Boeing 737 aircraft crashed minutes after takeoff in Addis Ababa yesterday, killing all 157 passengers on board, in circumstances similar to last October’s Lion Air crash in Indonesia. Consequences for Boeing depend on what the just-recovered voice and data recorders reveal.
Read more...The 2020 Democrats of the ‘Anti-Green New Deal Coalition’
The Green New Deal proposal has exposed widening rifts within the Democratic Party as presidential candidates begin fleshing out their 2020 platforms.
Read more...Is a War With Iran on the Horizon?
Why the US might be dumb enough to start a hot war with Iran.
Read more...Bill Black Analyzes Brad DeLong’s Stunning Concession: Neoliberals Should Pass the Baton and Let the Left Lead
Bill Black analyzes Brad DeLong’s concession that neoliberals should get out of the way and let the left lead since their coalition with Republicans did not work.
Read more...Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System
US counties with convict labor often have lower wage and employment growth
Read more...Charter School Cap Efforts Gain Momentum
Evidence increasingly shows that charter schools damage public schools, fueling campaigns to stop charter school growth.
Read more...Power Failure and Blackout: An Update on the Situation in Venezuela
It seems to be taking the United States rather a long time to topple the Maduro government.
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