The Role of Social Security Wealth: A Head-to-Head Comparison of Germany and the US
Crunching some numbers on the value of social safety nets shows Americans are not as well off as pundits and pols would have you believe.
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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?
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...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?
Read more...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...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.
Read more...Wilkerson: “We’re Staying in Afghanistan for the Next 50 Years”
A discussion of US rationalizations for committing more troops to Afghanistan with no endgame in sight.
Read more...CalPERS and Board Come Out Losers Over Kangaroo Court Against Its Most Effective Board Member (Updated)
CalPERS and its board seem incapable of understanding that when you are in a hole, you need to stop digging.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Review of Steve Keen’s “Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?”
Steve Keen’s book is a compact, layperson friendly evisceration of mainstream economics and efforts to defend banks at the expense of citizens.
Read more...CalPERS Hides Bogus Persecution: Promised Public Hearing for Lone Effective Director Held in Secret
CalPERS doubles down on a bogus scheme to neuter its one effective board member reneging on its promise to have a public hearing of charges.
Read more...The Fall of the Latin American Left, Part III: Argentina and the Right Winning Elections
How the Kirchner program in Argentina ran into the buzz saw of currency markets.
Read more...5 Times Charter School Founders Used Shady Real Estate Deals to Shamelessly Enrich Themselves
A trio of academics compare charter school tactics to Wall Street’s raiders.
Read more...The Trump Administration’s FCC Tries to Roll Back Net Neutrality
How the Obama Administration established net neutrality, why the Trump administration wants to roll it back, and what you can do.
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