Airbnb Turns to Brussels for Help as Anti-Tourist Backlash Intensifies in Europe
Airbnb is on the run in Europe and desperate to find allies.
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The U.S. Is Not at Full Employment—Don’t Believe the Trump Administration’s Hype to the Contrary
Why recent employment statistics are giving an unduly rosy picture of the state of the US labor market.
Read more...Can Canada’s Mutual Help Financial Organizations for Disenfranchised Blacks Serve as a Model for the Un and Underbanked in the US?
Are Canada’s mutual-assistance-based financial groups a guide for how minority and disadvantaged groups can escape the tax of overpriced bank services like check cashing?
Read more...Globalisation, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
How do voter reactions to globalisation vary by skill level?
Read more...Warren Buffett’s Mortgage Companies Engage in Alleged Discrimination Against Minority Borrowers, Violating Fair Housing Act
An investigative report suggests that Berkshire Hathaway’s mortgage lending operation discriminates against minority borrowers.
Read more...200th Anniversary of the Birth of Marx and a Revolution in Understanding History
How Marx recognized the economic forces that give rise to and perpetuate ideologies that promote injustice.
Read more...Corbyn’s Critics: Time to Come Round
After six shocks in three years, can Corbyn sceptics face the party’s new reality?
Read more...How Bill Cosby, Obama and Mega-Preachers Sold Economic Snake Oil to Black America
How neoliberal ideas infected black politics.
Read more...The Real Driver of Rising Inequality
Wage suppression—not monopoly power—is fueling corporate profits and the relentless rise in inequality.
Read more...The Revenge Against the Commons
Why France’s biggest police operation since May 1968 is prepared to kill for Macron to roust a 4000 acre commons.
Read more...Why Capitalism Creates Racism
Why separating racism from capitalist exploitation of low-wage workers isn’t as tidy as the Democratic Party would have you believe.
Read more...California Supreme Court Ruling Delivers Big Blow to Gig Economy Companies
Many gig economy firms will have to classify a big swathe of their workers as employees or radically change their business models.
Read more...The US Teachers Strike in Historical Perspective
Past strike waves offer clues to the possible regeneration of the American labor movement.
Read more...Michael Hudson: “Creating Wealth” Through Debt: The West’s Finance-Capitalist Road
Why debt is the great threat to modern China’s development.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Our Communities Are Scaled and Built for a Climate That No Longer Exists
Why combatting climate change will require the use of force.
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