Vital Economic Data Was Likely Lost During the Shutdown – Here’s Why It Matters to All Americans
Another shutdown cost….
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Experts Declare Physician Burnout ‘a Public Health Crisis’ – and Health IT a Significant Pathogen
Electronic health care records continue to be a drag on doctor productivity and the quality of treatment.
Read more...What Truck Drivers Say about “Driver Shortage” & Pay Increases
Debunking another “worker shortage” story.
Read more...Why the Green New Deal Is the Stuff of Fantasyland
Why the Green New Deal can’t deliver on its promises.
Read more...$15 Minimum Wage: Job Killer or Path Out of Poverty?
This Real News Network segment sets forth the most common arguments against increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour, or alternatively, a living wage level, and shows why they don’t hold up to scrutiny. A decent minimum wage is even more important when the supposedly robust US economy is increasingly creating McJobs. JAISAL NOOR: […]
Read more...China Won’t Be Taking Over
Why China is fragile and starting to look wobbly.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Davos Wants a Better Measure of Failure
Some Davos musings show that our elites aren’t what they are cracked up to be.
Read more...Piketty’s World Inequality Review: A Critical Analysis
Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong.
Read more...Christmas Hucksterism: The Last Mile of the Supply Chain is Safer Than You Think
A romp through surveys on “package thieves,” as publicized by a recent viral piece of Youtubery.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Vocabulary of Economic Deception
Michael Hudson gives a wide-ranging interview, discussing the importance of euphemism in obscuring power relationships and exploitation.
Read more...The UK’s Reform of Limited Partnership Law: Dead on Arrival (II)
Commentary on the inadequacy of the UK’s proposed Limited Partnership Reforms
Read more...The UK’s Reform of Limited Partnership Law: Dead on Arrival (I)
Scottish Limited Partnerships and International Crime: NO evidence??
Read more...CalPERS Admits Its New Private Equity Funds Will Dilute Returns, Seeks to Change Benchmark to Hide That; Presents Other Questionable Claims as Top Investors Underperform Due to “Alternative Investments”
Awfully late in the game, CalPERS finally tries to ‘splain its private equity plans. The giant fund only digs its hole deeper.
Read more...Do Climate Policies ‘Kill jobs’? An Economist on Why They Don’t Cause Massive Unemployment
Sadly, an upbeat take on what “green” policies might means for jobs greatly understates the depth of economic restructuring needed to reduce the pace of climate change.
Read more...The Inconvenient Truth about Climate Change and the Economy
The new IPCC Report is overly optimistic about global productivity growth and fossil fuel energy use. More dramatic, immediate action on climate change is needed
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