Michael Hudson describes how, in antiquity in Greece and Rome, emerging oligarchs ended the practice of debt jubilees, impoverishing laborers.
Read more...Economic mobility varies across the US, and tends to reflect the degree of mobility in the countries from which isettlers came.
Read more...An important Wall Street Journal story digs into how Rick Singer created his college entrance cheating empire.
Read more...How the change in the nature of work has helped increase income inequality.
Read more...MMT advocate typically shy away from calling for progressive taxes. A case as to why that’s a lost opportunity.
Read more...The middle class used to be the bedrock of American institutions. Now its members are coping with an uncertain future.
Read more...2020 is already in the news. so you might as well start working on your scoresheet!
Read more...Federal prosecutors indicted fifty people yesterday for college admissions fraud at several elite institutions, including Georgetown, Stanford, and Yale. Serious discussion of how college admissions procedures foster inequality is long overdue.
Read more...US counties with convict labor often have lower wage and employment growth
Read more...Why an MBA is not what it is cracked up to be.
Read more...Author Samuel Stein talks about how capitalism shapes cities.
Read more...What did China gain when the US lost manufacturing jobs?
Read more...Bezos admits he and other squillionaires didn’t do the “heavy lifting” of building the infrastructure on which tech enterprises depend….yet tries to depict a space venture as a greenfield project. Help me.
Read more...What lessons can we draw from the success of the latest West Virginia teachers’ strike?
Read more...Yves here. Those of you who know and love Door County (a peninsula in Wisconsin with Lake Michigan on one side and Green Bay on the other) may be offended at it being called a “secondary” tourist area. But it almost entirely a regional holiday destination, laid back, outdoorsy, with lots of hiking and biking […]
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