Category Archives: Income disparity

Flagging Productivity Growth – How Much Is Due to Bad Management?

Have management fads contributed to the fall in productivity growth?

Nurses: Paul Krugman Gives ‘Shallow Political Advice’ On Health Care Reform

While the National Nurses Union back national health care, they are cautiously calling only for Medicare for All, not a more robust system.

Trump as “Consequence, Not Cause” of the Collapse in the Post Cold War Consensus

How press and pundit fixation on Trump diverts public attention from power structures that work against ordinary Americans.

GOP and Democrats Push Trump on Tax Reform

Both parties only have sketches of tax reform plans, and each has basic deficiencies.

Democrats Pushing the “Compete” Word to Justify Doubling Down on Failed, Middle-Class Destroying Neoliberal Policies

Democrats are now telling voters they only need to compete better…and offer policies that have repeatedly failed to “help”.

Yes Men Target “Better Deal” #DNCTakeBack Scam

The DNC’s Better Deal scam is barely out of the box and the Yes Men are already making fun of it.

Why Tax Cuts for the Rich Solve Nothing

An update on Republican tax cut plans, and why they are economic chicanery.

Study: Only Wealthiest and Best Educated Benefit from Mediterranean Diet

A large-scale, well designed study on the Mediterranean diet showed unexpectedly that social status matters, big time.

Renegotiating NAFTA: The Role of Global Supply Chains

Unfortunately, redoing NAFTA in a way that benefits US workers is not a trivial task.

The US Antitrust Counter-Revolution

In case you doubted it, diminished antitrust enforcement, a rise in monopolies, and increased inequality are related developments.

How “Use of Machinery” Promotes Inequality and Social Upheaval

A prescient take from the 1840s on “machinery” versus labor and communities.