Corporate Contractors: The High End of the Precariat (Updated)
The stressful life of downwardly mobile corporate contractors.
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Who Is Behind FDA-Weakening Bill Based on False Premise That It Restricts Access to Experimental Drugs for the Terminally Ill?
A look at some of the forces out to undermine the FDA.
Read more...How US Regulators Created the Equifax Mess
How regulators made credit bureaus like Equifax powerful, and why banks could live without them if they needed to.
Read more...Europe’s Globalists Tackle the Immigration Class War
As immigration becomes a political flash point, even hard core neoliberals like Emmanuel Macron are advocating restrictions.
Read more...A Louisville Union Built Its Strength as Blacks, Whites Took on International Harvester
History of the 1947 International Harvester factory strike by Farm Equipment Workers.
Read more...New America Foundation Head Anne-Marie Slaughter Botches Laundering Google’s Money, Fires Anti-Trust Team at Eric Schmidt’s Behest
Google henchwoman Anne-Marie Slaughter has shown far too openly how Google is throwing its money and weight around in DC.
Read more...Brexit Makes Labour Exploitation More Likely in the UK
Negotiations on a future Brexit deal have barely started, yet EU workers across the UK are already finding themselves more vulnerable.
Read more...How Much Is Google Willing to Gamble in Its Staredown With the EU Competition Commissioner?
Google is in a tougher spot with its EU antitrust ruling than the press has generally acknowledged. It will make an initial response today.
Read more...Will Big Data Eat Hollywood’s Lunch?
Hollywood relies ever more heavily on repetitive content.
Will firms like Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, and Google swallow it whole?
“How to Run a Cheap Foreign Labor Economic Model”
An illustration of how the debate on globalization too often, mistakenly, fixates on labor costs as a driver of “competitiveness”.
Read more...Google’s Censorship, Plans to Restrict Publisher Advertising Raises Antitrust Issues
More on how Google plans to tighten its chokehold on the Internet.
Read more...Life’s a Pitch
Another sign of economic insecurity: the pitch economy, where competition becomes more and more degrading.
Read more...Trump and the Infrastructure of Fascism
How Trump’s infrastructure plan is a thinly-disguised privatization and deregulation scam.
Read more...How to Use Fiscal and Monetary Policy to Make Us Rich Again
On the obvious and high cost of abandoning fiscal policy in favor of monetary policy…save for asset owners.
Read more...After Neoliberalism, What Next?
The neoliberal order has failed and is creating more and more political and social upheaval. Some elements of a new system may be in sight.
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