Mark Ames: Why Finance Is Too Important to Leave to Larry Summers
A reprise of Mark Ames’ biting fundraiser classic.
Read more...A reprise of Mark Ames’ biting fundraiser classic.
Read more...Hospitals have some long-term patients not for medical reasons, but because they have no where to go. Giving them interim housing looks like a better answer.
Read more...There are better ways to skin fat cats than Warren’s wealth tax.
Read more...Corporations cross their hearts and swear that they’ll care about more than executive and director pay and stock prices.
Read more...A meaty new paper by Michael Hudson.
Read more...A large scale study confirms that labour platforms, also known as crowdwork, are exploitative.
Read more...How temp workers are a way to implement Jay Gould’s plan: “I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.”
Read more...Contrary to widespread beliefs, gentrification does not appear to harm children. But that may be because it operates differenlty than most assume.
Read more...Martin Wolf has a big think about what is wrong in and discovers rentier activity.
Read more...So, what’s behind the sharp increase that is expected in the oldest work-age demographic?
Read more...Purdue Pharma files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Will members of the Sackler family succeed in blunting accountability for the opioids crisis?
Read more...People turn to authoritarian leaders not because they distrust democracy but because our system is fundamentally undemocratic.
Read more...Sanders’ and Warren’s supposedly wild eyed ideas of cancelling student debt and making college tuition free get a thumbs up in a new poll.
Read more...Many indicators say the US is close to full employment. Hours of work tell a different story.
Read more...Private equity has glommed onto the healthcare sector, and drives the “surprise” medical billing. phenomenon.
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