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The Global Corporate Saving Glut

The corporate savings glut has been long in the making. It’s a sign of capitalists abandoning their role of investing to pursue growth.

Race to the Bottom: Cities and States Spend >$45 Billion Per Year Competing for Jobs

The Wall Street Journal published an important story on how states and communities throw money at companies via tax incentives and other gimmies in a desperate effort to win or hold jobs. These subsidies are a big drain on government budgets: Economic-development tax incentives more than tripled over the past 25 years, offsetting about 30% […]

Bill Black: The 2016 Nobel Prizes in Economics Go to Defenders of Criminogenic Policies

Yet another dubious Swedish central bank fake Nobel Prize award…

Why Extreme Inequality Causes Economic Collapse

A look at how rising inequality becomes systemically destructive.

Grantham: ‘Twas Capitalism That Killed Capitalism

How capitalism became disconnected from social good, leading to hope for a “strong leader” will take on the rich and powerful.

Are 401(k)s Contributing to the Growth of the Outsourcing of Jobs?

Yet another reason to regard 401(k)s as a failure….

“The End of Employees”

Why business expect to have even fewer employees.

re: F@ck Work?

Why the Job Guarantee versus Universal Basic Income is not about work, but about governance.

Bill Black: A Letter to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger about Hiring Proven Whistleblowers

Whistleblowers have all the ideal characteristics to create “a board culture that drives effectiveness and company performance.” Why not make them directors?