In a lawsuit against Berkeley, RealPage contends that using pricing algorithms to coordinate residential rents among mega landlords is “free speech.”
Read more...Chinese point out that Americans are exploited by oligarchs. But the tariffs, like it or not, are part of a radical right counter-revolution.
Read more...An update on DOGE’s rampage through government functions.
Read more...A detailed discussion of the damage done by Smoot Hawley to illustrate why tariffs typically do more harm than good
Read more...“Without competition from our public Postal Service, for-profit firms would jack up delivery fees on as many customers as possible.”
Read more...What is Trump trying to achieve on the economic front? Despite all the bobbing and weaving, he does have some core aims.
Read more...Trump’s slash and burn tariff policy is to shrink government, gut regulation and sell off public assets to pay for his tax cuts on super rich
Read more...Trump promised in 2016 and 2024 to undo deindustrialization from globalization and free trade, with tariffs as his main tool. Can it work?
Read more...Do Trump’s trade flip flops, destructive to everyone save perhaps insider traders, show that he has entered a Mad Ludwig phase?
Read more...Some further thoughts on the radical US-destructiveness of the Trump tariff regime.
Read more...More on the false premise that Trump can restore the US as a manufacturing powerhouse.
Read more...An attempt to divine the political roots of Trump’s trade and tariff policies.
Read more...The focus on the market rout pervesely distracts attention from Trump’s massive and probably durable real economy destruction.
Read more...The tariff situation has developed not necessarily to the advantage of the car industry.
Read more...The massive Trump tariffs are a con on a global scale. Trump is not rejecting the corporate trade model. He’s weaponizing it.
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