The Work-From-Home Wage Premium
Why do work-from-home employees make more than in-office peers? Worker-boss relations don’t always hew to formalities.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
How Africa Keeps Losing Despite China v. West Race for Minerals
Africa supplies the minerals for the tech boom – but how it winds up losing out on the gains
Read more...Ruling for the Rich: Evidence of a Pro-Wealthy Bias on the US Supreme Court
Quelle surprise! The Supreme Court hearts the rich!
Read more...Rob Urie: No Exit – How Obama’s Bank Bailouts Produced Trump
Profiling the Democratic Party’s doom loop, starting with the Obama “get out of jail free” cards to financiers after the crisis.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Destiny of Civilization – Financialization & Collapse
Michael Hudson explains how industrial capitalism was radical in aiming to free economies and markets from rent-seeking and financialization.
Read more...The Myth of the West: Democracy and the State
Per Thomas Neuburger ‘Democratic’ life began millions of years ago. It died with the birth of the city-state.
Read more...Would Raising Taxes on the Richest New Yorkers Drive Them Away?
What might happen if New York City Mayor Mamdani delivers on increasing income and corporate taxes to the next level?
Read more...Twin Cities Unions Planning ‘Largest US Rent Strike in 100+ Years’ as ICE Occupation Drives Eviction Crisis
Renters in Minnesota who’ve been afraid to go to work due to ICE thuggery and allies in labor plan a historic rent strike
Read more...Why Does Economics Refuse to Acknowledge John Ruskin’s Illith, as in Harmful Activity?
Why the economics discipline has ignored John Ruskin’s seminal concept of illith, as in destructive activity.
Read more...Urban Slums: Stepping-Stone for Some and Traps (or Shields) for Others
A study in Brazil found that urban slums can offer upward mobility due to access to public education. But how true is that around the world?
Read more...Trump’s Concentration Camp Build-Out Includes Nearly $40 Billion for Warehouse Conversions
Disclosure to a GOP governor confirms that Trump plans to devote nearly $40 billion to one element of his concentration camp plan.
Read more...Germany’s “Two-Speed Europe” Proposal Is the EU’s Adaptation to Great Power Geopolitics
Germany, following the European Commission’s lead, is moving forward a plan for the biggest members to impose decisions on the others.
Read more...The Finance Curse Is Killing Britain
A well-warranted harsh look at the high cost an overly-large and ever-more-extractive finance sector imposes on society as a whole.
Read more...‘This Is Your Money’: Trump Assault on CFPB Has Cost Consumers $19 Billion
The affordability crisis includes the cost of being cheated, which due to the weakening of the CFPB alone is a handsome sum.
Read more...America’s Real Health Crisis? Inequality— and a Generation Pays
Raw milk won’t cut it. Even being rich won’t save you. The fast track to improving health in America is tackling inequality
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