A Tale of Two Retirements: The Great Divide Between CEOs and Everyone Else
Pension, compensation, and tax rules exacerbate inequality, fueling a huge gap between retirement benefits for CEOS and ordinary workers.
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Tom Engelhardt: The Future According to Trump
Gaming out some likely Trump scenarios.
Read more...Is Technological Progress Behind Growing Income Inequality?
Do elite-serving claims that technological change is a big driver of the rise in inequality hold up to scrutiny?
Read more...CNN Host’s Attempt to Explain the U.S. Economy Was So Bad I Started Yelling at the TV
Offshoring is about the rush to cheap labor, not about automation and new technology.
Read more...Uber, Gig Economy: “The Brutality of the System Is Being Lost on Those Who Actually Use These Apps”
The Financial Times’ Izabella Kaminska argues that the gig economy is a new form of feudalism.
Read more...Investment in Early Childhood Education Yields Substantial Gains for the Economy
Yes, Virginia, more education for the lower orders really does pay off.
Read more...GOP Plans to Gut Social Security
Social Security is on the chopping block. Get the word out.
Read more...Socio-Economic Determinants of the Italian Referendum Vote
More proof that the Italian rejection of Renzi’s constitutional reform referendum was not a simple “populist uprising”.
Read more...Bill Black: After 30 Years of Throwing Working People Under the Bus, Democratic Party’s “Centrist” Leaders Remain Clueless About Voter Revenge
The Democrats abandoned the working classes long ago and like an abusive spouse, never thought their victims would leave them.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Economists’ Deadly but Innocuous-Seeming Proclamations
A wide-ranging interview by Michael Hudson on the mind games that economists play.
Read more...Back From Full Employment To “Inclusive Growth”
“Inclusive growth” is economics NewSpeak for pretending to be concerned about the diminished opportunities for the middle and lower classes.
Read more...Bill Black: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – Not Austerity
Any plan by Democrats to “Help Working People” should begin with the word “jobs.” But an obsession with austerity makes that impossible.
Read more...Trump’s Win is a Warning: Europe Urgently Needs a New Deal
Europe is ignoring the lessons of New Deal era much to its peril.
Read more...Trump Starts Revealing His True Colors: Government by Plutocrats, For Plutocrats
The outlines of how Trump will govern are emerging from the fog, as revealed by his Cabinet picks. As expected, there is a lot not to like.
Read more...How the Global Left Destroyed Itself (or, All Sex Is Not Rape)
Why the politics of sex in particular, and identity politics in general, have undermined the left.
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