One dissenting student negotiator said the tentative agreement “does not come close to our initial demands and it leaves a lot of our co-workers still rent burdened, still impoverished.”
Read more...Decomposing the rise in US healthcare costs. Of course, it’s not much due to more or better care, but higher charges.
Read more...More shoes drop in the FTX saga as Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang cooperate with officials and we get an idea of the tales they are telling.
Read more...US patients are not the only victims of Big Pharma price gouging.
Read more...A wide-ranging discussion of some of the key mechanisms for exercising power in advaced economies, starting with monopolies.
Read more...ow Social Security is a victim of wage stagflation.
Read more...Confirmation that austerity is bad for political stabiity because ordinary citizens don’t take well to their governments treating them badly.
Read more...Michael Hudson describes how the war with Russia is changing the economic and political order, and not to the advantage of Europe and the US.
Read more...ECB’s assets drop by €800 billion. Mexico hiked too today, way ahead of the Fed, keeps peso from falling against USD.
Read more...How FTX showering money on both parties to try to paralyze regulators.
Read more...The pathologies that produced the financial crisis are still circulating.
Read more...SBF’s fortunes just took a big nosedive, or for the more jaundiced, got marked to market.
Read more...Workers at the New York Times stopped working to demand better pay and labor rights—but only for a day. What if they flexed their power?
Read more...Canada’s assisted death program attracts people living in misery due to lack of support from the state.
Read more...Why the road away from the dollar will have many twists and turns.
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