A Battered Doctor, A Slain Patient And A Family’s Quest For Answers
A case study in how a patient was a threat to a doctor….and how the reverse has too often become true.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
Silicon Valley’s Gilded Cage
Silicon Valley glitters but at least some of its workers want more.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Racial Dimension of Student Debt
Why student debt hits blacks particularly hard.
Read more...A History of the European Core and Its Periphery: How an Optimal Currency Area Forms
This column documents the formation and evolution of a core and periphery in EMU, unearthing an increasingly integrated core, an entrenched periphery, and a third set of countries marked by in-and-out movements
Read more...Seeking Reader Sightings on the State of Flyover
Can readers tell us what they see over time from parts of the US off paths well trodden by MSM reporters?
Read more...Why Trump Is So Clumsy About Fighting ‘Free Trade’
Why what looks like a trade problem is really a financialization problem, and therefore there are much better solutions than using tariffs.
Read more...How the Democrat’s Corrupt Congressional Pay-to-Play Machine Sabotages Progressives and the Popular Will
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee as a study in corruption and a vehicle for maintaining elite control.
Read more...Notes on the West Virginia Teachers Strike of 2018
How this strike began, the current state of play, health care as a demand, solidarity, and the role of the Democrats
Read more...Stock Buybacks Hurt Workers and the Economy. We Should Ban Them.
The Reagan Administration ushered in stock buybacks as legalized manipulation. Time to put it to an end.
Read more...MIT Study: Median Uber and Lyft Profits Less Than Half Minimum Wage; 30% of Drivers Lose Money
Yes, it is now official: you really are engaged in exploitation when you use Uber or Lyft.
Read more...With Official Unemployment This Low, Why Are Wages Rising So Slowly?
Why has wage growth been lousy in a supposed recovery? Thank your politicians for fostering the growth of the precariat.
Read more...Bill Black: Once a Poster Child for Austerity, Latvia Becomes a Hotbed of Corruption
Bill Black discusses how in two years Latvia has morphed from poster child for austerity for the financial press to a nest of banking corruption.
Read more...“Life in the Sweatbox,” Personal Bankruptcy, and the Narrative of Utilitarian Calculus
The false narrative that made personal bankruptcy law so hellish
Read more...Technology Change Not the Culprit in Wages Falling Behind US Productivity Gains
Larry Summers and Anna Stansbury challenge the idea that workers getting a smaller cut of the productivity gains pie is due to technology.
Read more...Law Professor Proposes Bringing Back Indentured Servitude
Indentured servitude is the new idea for how to get immigrants to come to American at less than minimum wage pay.
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