A Big Reckoning Starting for Private Equity and Its Public Pension Fund Enthusiasts
Private equity returns are finally going pear-shaped, but for the most part, investors are re-upping their bets.
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How Corporations Hope to Eviscerate Workers’ Right to Strike
A suit by Glacier Northwest, seeking to recover costs it incurred during a strike, is now before the Supreme Court.
Read more...US Inflation Policies Slowing World Economy
The Fed is playing killer of the current inflation even though it isn’t set up to do so. That’s hurting a lot of innocent bystanders.
Read more...How the Left Should Exercise Power Once They Have It
Another episode in the long-running soap opera, “Can the Left Be Saved?”
Read more...“Yes, Britain Is Corrupt. But It’s a Lot Worse Than You Think”
The press talked up the UK’s drop in the Corruption Perception Index. But the UK has long been an engine of corrupt conduct around the world.
Read more...Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson Discuss the Causes and Politicization of Inflation
Desai and Hudson debunk widely-believed, finance-and-elite-serving myths about inflation.
Read more...The Post-Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?
Continuing shocks to the economy threaten the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility
Read more...Viewing Ukraine Through the Davos Lens
The World Economic Forum, which concluded on Friday, provides clues as to why European leaders would sacrifice their national economies for the war in Ukraine.
Read more...Davos Elite Won’t Tackle Climate Crisis and Global Inequalities
Quelle surprise! Change on crucial issues of climate and inequality is unlikely to emerge from the World Economic Forum.
Read more...Monopsony in Professional Labor Markets: Hospital System Concentration and Nurse Wage Growth
elle surprise! “Growing consolidation in localized hospital markets appears to restrict nurse wage growth.”
Read more...Paging Dr. Freud: Schizophrenic Reports on Mood of Davos Man
Unfortunately, it’s prudent to be mindful of what our Davos overlords are plotting. But they seem mighty unsettled.
Read more...Police Violence Reached an All-Time High Last Year—Are We Ready to Shrink Police Budgets?
Police brutality is higher than ever. But solutions are hard to devise.
Read more...Here is the Truth: Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage
“Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I should know. I helped to sell it.”
Read more...Public Libraries Continue to Thrive Despite Defunding and Privatization Attacks
Efforts by governments and cities to defund the public library are thankully falleing short due to essential role libraries play.
Read more...What It Means for Hunger to Burn Through the Pentagon’s Ranks
Food insecurity, aka hunger, afflicts from one in eight to one in four military families per recent studies.
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