Bob Pollin: Modest Inflation Is Good for Workers
If inflation is linked to higher wages, that’s not bad for workers, says Bob Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute in Amherst.
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When Is a Co-Op Not a Co-Op? When Vested Interests in California Want to Keep Platform Workers From Having Power
California Assembly Bill 1319 is a convoluted scheme to create so-called co-ops designed to keep gig workers disempowered.
Read more...Real American Men and the Liberal War on Meat
Kill me now. Meat has become a new front in the culture wars.
Read more...What if Large Businesses Are Really Macroeconomic Entities?
Mega businesses are a huuge problem. But what to do?
Read more...Larry Summers Doubles Down On His Inflation Prediction
Unfortunately, Larry Summers still gets attention, most recently for inflation hawkery. Fortunately, it’s not hard to see through him.
Read more...How Enforcement of the USMCA Will End a Corporate Race to the Bottom
USMCA, which promised to help American workers by improving labor bargaining rights, is being put to its first road test. Will it perform?
Read more...Support for Gig Worker Union Bill in New York Collapsing After Scrutiny
A tech industry Trojan horse masquerading as a pro-union measure has been caught out.
Read more...A Neoliberalism Meets Covid Vignette: Barriers to Getting a Vaccine, Publix Edition
We had to jump through way too many hoops to get a Covid vaccine at Publix. Is this normal for pharmacies?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Why Biden Won’t Cancel Student Debt
Michael Hudson gives a hard look at the typical excuses for not cancelling student debt and finds them wanting.
Read more...Crypto Crackdown: Only the Beginning?
If you think the officialdom is getting tough with crypto, there’s even more they can do to tighten the screws.
Read more...Slack in the Economy, Not Inflation, Should Be Bigger Worry
Despite fear-mongering about inflation, unemployment remains elevated and stimulus is needed to prevent a collapse in demand.
Read more...An Indictment of US Covid Policy
How US Covid policy is producing far more deaths and disability here and around the world than necessary.
Read more...Put People Before Profits for Covid Progress
More discussion of Covid vaccine, testing and treatment apartheid, thanks to private sector profiteering.
Read more...Biden Administration/CDC “Mission Accomplished” Mask Reversal: Hubris? Incompetence? Toadying to Business?
Why the policy-making part of the CDC should be burned to the ground: it’s highly politicized yet not very good at politics.
Read more...Costco Is Mean to the Disabled and Elderly
Costco is not nice.
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