Why Relentless Labor Rights Enforcement Will Make or Break the New NAFTA
Why Nafta 2.0 labor protections for Mexicans are key to whether the deal delivers on its promise to US workers.
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Biden Defends Undying Allegiance to For-Profit Healthcare During Interview With Dying Medicare for All Advocate Ady Barkan
Biden acts like the heartless pol he is. He can’t keep up the pretense if someone wants to get between him and insurer profits.
Read more...Unemployment Claims Hit New Record: 32.9 Million State & Federal. Week 16 of U.S. Labor Market Collapse
The latest unemployment data calls into question the notion that anything more than a techical recovery is underway.
Read more...Let the Predation Begin! CFPB Rolls Back Obama-Era Payday Loan Protections
Payday loan abuses are baaack, thanks to a full bore lobbying effort.
Read more...Is Donald Trump Likely to Resign?
Looking at some underrated Trump weaknesses.
Read more...Education 101: Don’t Open a New Charter School in the Middle of a Pandemic
A hard look at charter school misleading ads, racial segregation, and dodgy economics.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Interview with Léa El Azzi on Capitalism After the Pandemic, Europe, Greece, Lebanon & the IMF
A discussion of the state of capitailsm, with a European/Lebanase slant.
Read more...We Won’t Have a Truly Global Economy Until We Tax It That Way
Tax is an enormously powerful tool for shaping economic policy and thus bears close watching.
Read more...Pentagon Porks Up as Covid-19 Bleeds Economy
Quelle surprise! Pentagon grifting continues apace, even in the face of a full-bore domestic crisis.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Coronavirus and Debt Winners and Losers
Michael Hudson explains why debt cancellation and turning banks into utilities is the only sound response to the cornacrisis.
Read more...The Pandemic Shows the Importance of Funding Early Childcare and Education Infrastructure (Updated)
Why investment in childcare and education provides high returns yet has been largely ignored in Covid-19 responses.
Read more...Pandemic-Emptied Hotels Could Become Affordable Housing, City Officials Suggest
Potentially thousands of vacant hotel rooms in New York City alone are ripe for conversion into permanent residences, deputy mayor, housing groups and hotel owners agree.
Read more...The Best Law Capital Can Buy
A review of the important new book “The Code of Capital: How the law creates wealth and inequality.”
Read more...America Sits on Its Hands as Covid-19 Cases Rise
More signs of Covid-19 breakdown.
Read more...Can the Aspen Institute’s Elite Economists Beat the Coronavirus Depression?
A careful look at a new set of rescue schemes devised by some Serious Economists. Honestly, even Larry Summers could do better than this.
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