The Standing Rock Sioux Will Be Ready To Take a Trump Challenge to Courts
The Sioux have a decent legal case against Trump Administration efforts to revive the Dakota Access pipeline.
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Bill Black: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – Not Austerity
Any plan by Democrats to “Help Working People” should begin with the word “jobs.” But an obsession with austerity makes that impossible.
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Four: Understanding That Unregulated Monopoly Was Always Uber’s Central Objective
Why Uber’s goal is replacing urban car service with a higher cost, less efficient operation that would extract wealth from the public.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Italians Vote “No,” Renzi to Resign, Banking Crisis Now Looking for Taxpayers
Will the failure of Renzi’s constitutional referendum and resulting political uncertainty finally force Italy’s banking crisis to a head?
Read more...Trump Picks Ex-Goldman Banker, Steve Mnuchin, Known as ‘King of Foreclosures’ to Head Treasury
Why you should be worried about the prospect of Steve Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary.
Read more...India: Demonetization and its Discontents
Why have India’s citizens not reacted more forcefully to the huge disruption created by a misguided demonetization program?
Read more...Trump Starts Revealing His True Colors: Government by Plutocrats, For Plutocrats
The outlines of how Trump will govern are emerging from the fog, as revealed by his Cabinet picks. As expected, there is a lot not to like.
Read more...Trump Loves to Win, But American Generals Have Forgotten How
Trump recognizes that the senior U.S. military leadership doesn’t know how to win. But can he do anything about it?
Read more...Round Up No Suspects: The Bio Telemetry Settlement Demonstrates the Continuing Impunity of Health Care Organizational (and Other) Leaders
As has become usual in enforcement of laws regarding kickbacks, bribes, fraud etc, the case was resolved by a relatively small fine
Read more...Bill Black: Howard Dean Wants to Continue Austerity’s Assault on the Working Class
Why Democrats like Howard Dean believe in and sell austerity snake oil.
Read more...Trumpism Has Dealt a Mortal Blow to Orthodox Economics and ‘Social Science’
Why Trumpism caused mainstream ‘social science’ to fall like a house of cards.
Read more...Washington Post Promotes Shadowy Website That Accuses 200 Publications of Being Russian Propaganda Plants
McCarthyism lives! A site with no credentials and no evidence has smeared over 200 sites, including ours, as Russian stooges.
Read more...Cutting Company Taxes is a Race to the Bottom
Corporations are winning an ideological battle, securing lower income taxes around the world. But how far can this trend go?
Read more...Bill Black: Krugman’s Failure to Speak Truth to Power About Austerity
Krugman’s fiscal orthodoxy led him to enable Hillary’s disastrous embrace of austerity rather than call her out for it.
Read more...Donald Trump: “My 100-Day Action Plan”
A look at Trump’s major proposals.
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