Category Archives: Guest Post

How Media Workers are Organizing in the Dual Economy

With journalism moving from a stable to a precarious profession, digital media workers have gotten serious about organizing.

Links 6/30/19

Taxcast: The Corporate Tax Haven Index, Solving the World’s Broken Tax System

This taxcast examines the Tax Justice Network’s new Corporate Tax Haven Index for what’s wrong with the taxation system and how to fix it.

Links 6/29/19

How a Central Asian Business Empire Dines Out on British Secrecy

Using the UK’s lax corporate transparency and accountability regime, international businesses can, in effect, mask interests and ownership at home.

Are Cryptocurrencies the First Crack in the Wall to Regulate Facebook?

Like Icarus, the social media monopoly is flying too close to the sun and generating much regulatory heat, which could eventually lead to its downfall.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/28/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: Temporarily open thread.

Links 6/28/19

Where Brexit Goes, the Law Shall Follow

Rather than a unified mass transition out of London to another singular hub, the financial industry is using Brexit as an opportunity to diversify. And lawyers are moving to Dublin.

Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #2 in Miami (Second Night)

Open thread on the second Democrat Presidential debate.

2:00PM Water Cooler 6/27/2019

Today’s Water Cooler: Democrat debate, Castro, De Blasio, Inslee, Festival of Sanders, Trump, Warren, census and gerrymandering SCOTUS decisions, GDP, manufacturing, USSR collapse and carbon, white working class, feminism, dark patterns

Private Equity and “Institutional” Investor Owned U.K. Utility Engaged in Massive Fraud, Regulatory Evasions, Worker Coercion, Caused “Catastrophic” Environmental Damage

Abuses like raw sewage on beaches and faking regulatory filings make a U.K. water utility a new low in privatization scandals.

Robert Reich: Here’s Why We Need to Break Up Big Tech

Monopolies aren’t good for anyone except for the monopolists, especially when they can influence our elections and control how Americans receive information.

Brexit: Impacts and Prospects

While the apocalyptic predictions of the Remain campaign have failed to materialize, the economic damage has nevertheless been significant.

Live Blog: Democrat Presidential Primary Debate #1 in Miami (First Night)

Open thread on the debates.