The Economic Drivers of Political Disruption in Advanced Economies
The (bad) economic policy roots of political polarization.
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Missouri State Public Defender’s Office Appoints Governor Jay Nixon To Serve as Public Defender
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is hoist on his ant-poor, budget-cutting petard.
Read more...5 Ways Corporate Power Increases Inequality
How corporate power squeezes the middle class.
Read more...Scotland Disses Theresa May by Reviving Anti-Inequality Law She Loathes
Another min-joust between the UK and Scotland, this on an innovative anti-inequality stipulation.
Read more...How ‘Competitiveness’ Became One of the Great Unquestioned Virtues of Contemporary Culture
How political authority has legitimated and promoted the questionable goal of competitiveness.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Obama Said Hillary Will Continue His Legacy – and Indeed She Will!
An update on Hillary’s coronation.
Read more...The Immorality and Brutal Violence of Extreme Greed
Yves here. Please welcome guest blogger #SlayTheSmaugs. For those of you who have neither read The Hobbit nor seen the movies, “Smaug” is probably a meaningless word. In The Hobbit, Smaug is a massive and vicious dragon. He sits on a pile of gold and jewels that would bury a football stadium’s grass several feet […]
Read more...Investment Implications of the Rise of the New Lumpenproletariat and Political Shocks
How rising numbers of the new lumpenproletariat, meaning contingent and least-paid workers, are reshaping economies and politics.
Read more...Sanders Delegation Plotting in Public and Secretly to Shake Up Democratic Convention
Many Sanders delegates are planning rearguard actions at the Democratic convention.
Read more...8 Countries Where Rampant Inequality Has Led to Violence
Yes, Virginia, inequality is dangerous but that does not stop many of the really rich from wanting more. us.
Read more...Did the New York Times Really Need to Let Jamie Dimon Crow About the Measly Raise He Is Granting Employees?
Jamie Dimon throws JP Morgan workers some crumbs.
Read more...Meet the Middle Precariat
The rise of the “middle precariat” is another sign of how badly pay levels and workplace protections have eroded.
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: The Opioid Epidemic and “the Looting Professional Class”
The professional classes as a transmission vector in the opioid epidemic.
Read more...How MBA Programs Drive Inequality
How MBA programs reinforced the inequality-promoting neoliberal economic model.
Read more...Bill Black and Stephanie Kelton: Is it Time for a New Deal Federal Jobs Program?
On the need for New Deal levels of spending on national priorities and the myths and political grifting that prevent it.
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