Politicization of Sports and Sportization of Politics: A Global Dangerous Trend
Why the convergence of sports and political behaviors is bad for each.
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Why You Should Back the Sanders/AOC Plan to Cap Credit Card Interest Rates at 15%, Re-Launch the Postal Savings Bank
A new bill by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seeks to limit credit abuses and make banking more accessible.
Read more...Antitrust in American History: Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance
The Chicago School’s weakening of antitrust law hurt the economy
Read more...Bill Black: Thousands Die, Millions Injured on the Job, and No Businesses Prosecuted
Bill Black describes how OSHA’s few underfunded inspectors can’t do their jobs, and prosecutors don’t prosecute businesses for non-compliance.
Read more...Coping With World Bank-Led Financialization
The World Bank has successfully promoted its ‘Maximizing Finance for Development’ (MFD) strategy by embracing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, internationally endorsed in September 2015.
Read more...Apple to California Legislators: Consumers Will Hurt Themselves if Provided a Right to Repair
Apple and tech lobbyists delay a California bill to provide a statewide right to repair until 2020, claiming consumers will hurt themselves if the state capitulates on this issue. They also successfully deploy the hackers in the basement boogeyman.
Read more...We Live in a World With Very Rich Multinational Mining Companies, and Very Poor Miners
The Porgera Joint Venture – a gold mining operation in Paupa New Guinea, sucks gold out of a mountaintop, providing little benefit to miners or the people who live near the mine. Activist groups, and a lawsuit recently filed in Australia, seek to change that, as well as correct horrific human rights abuses.
Read more...Buttigieg’s Small Donor Surge: Less There Than Meets the Eye?
A first look at the data about Buttigieg’s donors raises some uncomfortable questions.
Read more...Dying on the Job: How Workers Get Hurt When Businesses Keep Deadly Secrets
OSHA reversed a rule that would have provided more information about workplace dangers nationally. It decided to stop requiring large employers to electronically report injury and illness data. OSHA still requires employers to document this information, but they don’t have to tell anyone.
Read more...Soaring Healthcare Costs Jeopardize Retirement In America
Ever-rising healthcare expenses are keeping many old people in the workforce.
Read more...The Great Deformation: Why Income Inequality Has Become Intractable
Recent work on iinequality by Lance Taylor says this will be a particularly hard problem to solve.
Read more...We’ve Endured Years of Bragging From Trump—What Would an American Trade ‘Victory’ Look Like?
Will Trump declare a win if his trade representative fails to negotiate a viable long-term solution with Beijing?
Read more...A Way-Too-Early Look at Bernie Sanders’ VP Choices
A review of Sanders’ options…..
Read more...Empire and Economics: The Long History of Debt Cancellation from Antiquity to Today
Get a cup of coffee. A meaty talk by Michael Hudson, Liz Theoharis, and Aliou Niang on the social and economic logic of debt cancellation back when it was a regular practice.
Read more...McKinsey: Doing God’s Work in Puerto Rico
McKinsey would have you believe it is covering itself in glory in Puerto Rico. A New York Magazine story suggests otherwise.
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