Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents

Gaius Publius: Verizon Throttled Firefighters’ Data As Mendocino Wildfire Burned

Verizon shows that extortion is fundamental to its business model.

Market Power, Low Productivity, and Lagging Wages: The Real Drivers

To understand labor productivity—and growing inequality—you have to look at the “dual economy”

Lump-of-Labor Fallacy: The Nastiest Motives of Nasty People

Why the lump-of-labor fallacy is bad for workers and for economics.

Brexit: EU Takes Hard-Nosed Stance on Financial Services “Equivalence” Deals

Is the EU playing iron fist in velvet glove on the UK’s Brexit pitch for a financial services equivalence deal?

Yanis Varoufakis: Greece Was Never Bailed Out and Remains in Debtor’s Prison – Bild Zeitung Interview

Yanis Varoufakis revisits the Greece 2015 debt negotiations and describes how Greece still wears the austerity yoke.

The Digital Freedom Pass: Emancipation from Digital Slavery

A libertarian case against Silicon Valley’s digital slavemasters.

Elizabeth Warren’s Proposal for “Co-Determination”: Really a Second New Deal?

Strengths, weaknesses, and context of Elizabeth Warren’s “Accountable Capitalism Act”

Brexit Is a Consequence of Low Upward Mobility

In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future.

The Mechanics of Cryptocurrency

An examination of cryptocurrency practicalities.

Why Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism Act Will Be Good for Shareholders

Why shareholders are getting a raw deal out of the misguided corporate fixation on “maximizing shareholder value,” and Elizabeth Warren’s new bill is therefore good for them.

Medicaid Officials Target Home Health Aides’ Union Dues

Another attack on union funding.