10 Economic Facts that Power the Sanders Insurgency
Why are so many drawn to the Sanders message? It’s because so many of us want to stop our entire society from crumbling beneath the destructive power of runaway inequality.
Read more...Why are so many drawn to the Sanders message? It’s because so many of us want to stop our entire society from crumbling beneath the destructive power of runaway inequality.
Read more...Why pursuing national “competitiveness,” as in squeezing labor pay and rights, does not produce the promised benefit of more growth.
Read more...A deep dive into some new information about the student loan defaults and the impact of borrowing on borrowers. Short version: not pretty.
Read more...uropean creditors want to extract more blood from a stone, in this case Greece.
Read more...Many Europeans argue that when you adjust nominally higher American incomes for how much we spend from our own pockets on healthcare plus the longer hours we work, we aren’t better off.
Read more...Beware! Liquidity traps are even nastier than you thought.
Read more...Why are more and more prime age people refusing to take jobs on offer?
Read more...While the new neoliberal economic order is not a replay of fascism,, there is a remarkable amount of inhibition in calling out the similarities where they exist.
Read more...An HIV-level silent epidemic has hit less-educated, middle aged whites, with death rates rising, contrary to patterns in the rest of the world and in other US populations.
Read more...Even though the struggle over Greece’s bailout has receded from the news, with many countries carrying large debt burdens, the need to restructure sovereign debts is not going away. This Real News Network segment gives an overview of the state of play.
Read more...Why finance-influenced economic policy in the US has managed to avoid deflation while in Europe, it has stoked it.
Read more...How Steve Jobs’ successes were government sponsored enterprises.
Read more...Making sense of the “overly dynamic” process of forming a new government in Portugal in the wake of an inconclusive election.
Read more...Yet another China risk warning.
Read more...Barcelona threatens to go rogue by issuing its own currency.
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