Amazon, City Killer?
The unseemly bidding war to have the opportunity to have Amazon ruin your city moves to its finalist phase.
Read more...Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents
The Long-Term Care Crisis: Premiums Exploding, Leaving Seniors With “An Awful Choice”
More on the long-term care insurance train wreck.
Read more...5 Ways Capitalist Logic Has Sabotaged the Scientific Community
A useful short list on how commercial and competitive pressures have undermined good scientific practice.
Read more...How Amazon’s Accounting Makes Rich People’s Income Invisible
How Amazon’s predatory non-profit model is a particularly potent form of rent extraction.
Read more...Carillion Must Now Also Face Justice for Blacklisting Trade Unionists
More on Carillion’s bad deeds.
Read more...Intel: No Financial Meltdown
Some economists are Not Happy to see Intel getting away virtually scot free from its Meltdown and Spectre security train wrecks.
Read more...Careers and Families of High-Skilled Women in the Age of High Inequality
Who’d have thunk it? Cheap servants mean high income career women have more kids.
Read more...International Trade and Globalization: Are Benefits Truly Mutual?
Questioning economic orthodoxies on trade.
Read more...Meltdown and Spectre FAQ: Crapification at Scale
Billions, nay trillions, of processors. What, if anything, to do?
Read more...From Territorial to Functional Sovereignty: The Case of Amazon
How digital platform operators like Amazon are undermining democracy.
Read more...Selling Out Argentina’s Future—Again
How Argentina’s new neoliberal masters are driving the economy back into its old debt crisis ditch.
Read more...Amar Bhide: The Case for Traditional Banking
Amar Bhide gives a clearly-written, compelling argument against a supposed banking “innovation,” securitization.
Read more...Why Are Profit-Making Factories Closing Across England?
The curious case of England’s closing factories shows the need for industrial strategy to counter rampant short-termism.
Read more...Net Neutrality: The Congressional Review Act, Supportive Constituencies (and Injunctions)
The tiered Internet, a head count for the CRA, and the constituencies that the abolition of net neutrality will harm (including knitters)
Read more...Wolf Richter: Momentous Change in US Natural Gas, with Global Impact
Even China is Buying U.S. LNG
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