Foxconn’s Con: Seeking Whopping Subsidies for Wisconsin, Michigan Manufacturing Jobs…If They Happen
What the dodgy Foxconn scheme to build factories in the US says about Trump’s commitment to job creation.
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Trump as “Consequence, Not Cause” of the Collapse in the Post Cold War Consensus
How press and pundit fixation on Trump diverts public attention from power structures that work against ordinary Americans.
Read more...GOP and Democrats Push Trump on Tax Reform
Both parties only have sketches of tax reform plans, and each has basic deficiencies.
Read more...Private Equity Flouts State Regulations by Buying Medical Practices
State regulators have ignored private equity firms buying medical practices when many states bar non-MDs from owing them.
Read more...Gaius Publius: There Is No “Political Center” in Modern America
Debunking a political fiction that guides Democratic party thinking and messaging.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! Financial Firm Fines Are Way Down Under Trump
The latest sighting on how financial firms are getting off easy, yet have the bad taste to complain about their paltry punishments.
Read more...Democrats Pushing the “Compete” Word to Justify Doubling Down on Failed, Middle-Class Destroying Neoliberal Policies
Democrats are now telling voters they only need to compete better…and offer policies that have repeatedly failed to “help”.
Read more...Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing
An update on Republican tax cut plans, and why they are economic chicanery.
Read more...What the US “Health Care Reform” Debate Did Not Address
A sobering compendium of the factors responsible for the rot in the US health care system.
Read more...The US Antitrust Counter-Revolution
In case you doubted it, diminished antitrust enforcement, a rise in monopolies, and increased inequality are related developments.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Markets, Regulators Ignore Ticking Time Bomb of Shadow Margin Loans
Shadow margin loans are a sign of speculative excess and complacency about risk.
Read more...Healthcare Hypocrisy: How Politicians Hide Behind the 1986 EMTALA Law to Avoid Healthcare Reform
Is the emergency room mandate, EMTALA, responsible for lawmakers failing to devise reasonable legislation to fund health care?
Read more...John Helmer: Jared Kushner’s Testimonial to Stupidity and Unfitness – American and Russian
Why Jared Kunsher’s statements in Senate testimony demonstrate that he is unfit to play an official role.
Read more...People Voted Communist Because…
Italy had the largest communist party in Western Europe. Why did ordinary people vote communist? What did they believe in?
Read more...The Mega Rich Are Getting Mega Richer: A Former CEO Exposes the Corruption Behind Their Obscene Paychecks
Discusses broader economic effects of gross income inequality– driven by obscene CEO pay rises.
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