Michael Olenick: Update Confirms That Share Buybacks Are Still Corporate Suicide
Reconfirming the findings of a study that debunked some key claims about the supposed benefit of stock buybacks.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
The “Illegals” and Our Professional Classes
The nannies who are employed by the professional class on up….
Read more...How Data Service Naviance Helps Students of Elite High Schools Get Into Top Colleges
On the role that Naviance plays in the college application process at elite high schools.
Read more...The Jobs Guarantee, “Make-Work,” and FDR’s Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Recapturing the lost history of the FDR administration
Read more...Why Mexican Farmers Are Hopeful About López Obrador’s Win
Obrador promised to implement pro-farmer policies, such as increasing self-sufficiency in food. But will he have gone far enough for them if Mexico stays in Nafta?
Read more...Was Martin Luther King a Socialist?
A new book corrects the tendency of biographers and commentators to airbrush out Martin Luther King’s socialist leanings.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Ignore the Gini Coefficient – Real Inequality Is Growing and People Are Suffering as a Result
More lying with statistics on the inequality front.
Read more...Why Don’t Americans Take More Vacations? Blame It on Independence Day
How businesses created Americanization Day, later Independence Day, to counter the rising labor movement.
Read more...Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States
Data on 20 million children and their parents show how racial disparities persist across generations in the US.
Read more...Firms’ Global Market Power and Its Implications, Such as Lower Income Share to Workers
An attempt to look at the effects of the existence of international companies with market powers shows there are reasons to be concerned.
Read more...Naked Capitalism Readers Issue Scam Alert For Amazon’s “Become Our Freight Shipper” Scheme
Amazon isn’t satisfied with creating modern day sweatshops via its warehouses. It wants to suck the capital and labor of the not-so-savvy entrepreneur wannabes into its maw.
Read more...How Cynical Is the Democratic Party’s Support for Identity Politics? (Plus a Note on the Ocasio-Crowley Contest)
Another case study of Democratic Party hypocrisy.
Read more...Why Did Trump Win? Robots Are to Blame
Why robots, and not “bots,” may have been responsible for Trump’s win.
Read more...Alongside Rising Top Incomes, the Level of Living of America’s Poorest Has Fallen
As the rich in America get richer, the poorest fall further behind.
Read more...Mexican Business Elite, US Government, Brace for Likely Win by Leftist Obrador as Mexico’s President
What might a win in the July 1 presidential election by the charismatic, anti-neoliberal Andres Manuel Lopez Obrado mean for Mexico and the US?
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