Why Record Numbers of Workers Are Quitting and Striking
Workers are getting uppity. What is surprising is that it took so long.
Read more...Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents
Central Asia’s Neoliberal Tragedy
How the post-USSR neoliberal land grab played out in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Needless to say, not pretty.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Super Imperialism, 3rd Edition
Michael Hudson’s Super Imperialism strikes again!
Read more...Never Mind the Pandora Papers: Why Secrecy Still Rules in the UK
Thanks to poor drafting and a lack of enforcement, anti-secrecy legislation intended to make it clearer who owns UK companies isn’t working
Read more...Mzukisi Qobo: The Old Mantra About Growth Has Reached Exhaustion
A perspective from the Global South on the end game for growth.
Read more...The Neverending Brexit: Flailing Johnson Set to Try to Renege on Commitment to Respect Good Friday Agreement
Boris Johnson is expected to eyepoke the EU by reneging on the Norhtern Ireland protocol, presumbly to distract from domestic shortages.
Read more...Why America Needs a National Program of Paid Sick and Family Leave
Family leave is productive as well as humane, but American management has been keen to keep its boot on workers’ necks.
Read more...‘This Is a Battle Between What People Need & What Money Wants.’ How’s That Going to End?
Class warfare, American style, is ever more obvious. But how much are ordinary people taking note?
Read more...The Energy Transition Will Take Decades Not Years
Clean energy and green growth proponents greatly underestimate the amount of change needed to migrate off fossil fuel sources.
Read more...Does America Want a CHIPS for Buybacks Act?
To bring more chips-making back to the US, Congress should condition additional funds on suspending stock buybacks.
Read more...NLRB General Counsel Authors Memo Characterizing ‘Student-Athletes’ as Employees, Clearing Way for Them to Unionize; Employment Law Implications Extend to Others Misclassified as Independent Contractors
NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo outlines arguments for treating college athletes as employees, thus allowing them employment law protections.
Read more...Keir Starmer’s Speech – Labour’s Best Thing Since Stale Bread
It’s not capitalism that has to change, the Labour leader told us. It’s you.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty Debate Inequality, Debt, and Reform
Thomas Piketty and Micheal Hudson address “What is debt,” and also address inequality, rentierism, and reform in the West and China.
Read more...How Milton Friedman Aided and Abetted Segregationists in His Quest to Privatize Public Education
The Milton Friedman “school choice” scheme in the 1950s aimed to block equal, integrated education for black families.
Read more...The Violence of the 24-Hour Workday: Fighting Exploitation
The 24-hour-working immigrant underclass drags down the conditions of workers of all races, genders, and class positions across industries
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