Category Archives: Income disparity

Despite Wobbles, Theresa May Still Expected to Lead Conservative Win This Week

Despite Theresa May looking at risk in many UK polls, the distribution of seats in play may give the Tories the advantage.

Starved School Budgets Across the US: A Symptom of Education Funding Crisis

School budgets are in worse shape in many parts of the US than you might have imagined.

Michael Hudson: Are Students a Class?

Students as the new NINJA creditors, and the broader implications of the use of debt as an instrument of social control.

The New New Deal

The myth of the virtues of markets is past its sell-by date. Time for a new guiding principle, and the New Deal may be the place to start.

Government Austerity Demands That We Die Within Our Means

Theresa May’s plans to intensify austerity are costing her votes. About time.

The New Normal: Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class

Discusses twin diseases stymieing US middle-class– secular stagnation and the polarization of jobs and incomes– and potential policy cures.

Notes From an Emergency: Tech Feudalism

A wide-ranging, lively, sobering talk about tech feudalism and the implications for all of us.

Mr. Market Starts to Question Trump Trade Delusion

A look at the “Trump trade” pearl clutching yesterday.

New Jersey’s Flooding Crisis Hits Low-Income People Hardest

New Jersey’s flooding problems as a microcosm of what is to come.

The Financial Crisis That Spawned Austerity, Corporatized the Democratic Party and Gave the World Donald Trump

Why New York City’s fiscal crisis was a watershed event.

How Financialization and the “New Economy” Hurt Science and Engineering Grads

How the “new economy” devalued science and engineering degrees.

Immiseration Revisited: The Four Phases of Working Time

Immiseration theory, or why employers aren’t nicer to workers even though they become less productive the longer their workday.