How Bill Gates and His Billionaire Allies Used Their Wealth to Launch Charter Schools in Washington State
The Gates charter school push as a case study in the Trojan Horse of “charitable plutocracy”.
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Tom Engelhardt: Donald Trump – Campaigning on America’s Decline
Trump’s campaign is proof of America’s decline….but not in the way you think.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Look Ahead – Coming to the Philadelphia Crossroad
What happens to the credibility of the Democrats as a party if Sanders makes it past the Philadelphia crossroad?
Read more...Sanders Constituency Will Shape U.S. Politics for the Next Decade
Will the Sanders campaign spark fundamental change?
Read more...Gaius Publius: Hillary Clinton Won New York, But Her Image Is Underwater
The implications of Clinton’s rising unfavorable ratings.
Read more...The Rise of the Right Wing Populist: Blame It on the Banks
Contrary to popular belief, the shift to the right is not due to immigration as much as the financial crisis and its aftermath.
Read more...Bill Black: Adam Davidson, the 1%’s Lord Haw-Haw, Mangles Economic Theory to Attack Sanders
Adam Davidson makes numerous misrepresentations about economics in a salvo against Bernie Sanders’ economic plans. Does he really not know better, or has he really drunk the orthodox Kool-Aid?
Read more...US Wealth Inequality: Quantifying the Driving Factors
Recent decades have seen a remarkable increase in the concentration of wealth in the hands of the wealthiest in the US. This column examines which factors may have driven this increase. The evidence points to higher wage inequality, often attributed to new developments in the technology of production, as the main driving force, followed by tax cuts for top earners and more generous public transfers as secondary factors.
Read more...Youth Unemployment in the Mediterranean Region and its Long-Term Implications
The data on European youth unemployment is sobering, and the migrant influx is making a bad situation worse.
Read more...Open Thread: Reader Takes on Sanders/Clinton Brooklyn Debate
Seeking reader reactions to last night’s Sanders/Clinton debate.
Read more...America: No Country for Old People
It’s not easy being old and it’s only going to get harder in America.
Read more...Martin Wolf Defends Central Banks’ Negative Interest Rate Policies
The Financial Times’ lead economics writer, Martin Wolf, makes an intellectually bogus case for negative interest policies.
Read more...Intra-EMU Divergence Is A Feature Not A Bug
Yves here. I’m leery of reinforcing the “competitiveness” meme, since it’s based on the false premise that all countries can be exporters. But this article nevertheless makes important observations about Eurozone structural flaws.
Read more...We Stopped Pfizer’s Tax Dodge, Now Let’s End the Buybacks
Why companies, particularly ones that get large taxpayer subsidies like Pfizer, should not be allowed to manipulate their stock prices thorough buybacks.
Read more...Bill Black: AEI Pushes Government Propaganda Telling Women to Marry Schlubs
Why exhorting poor people to marry more often is right wing propaganda in lieu of real policies to address poverty.
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