Pay a Living Wage or ‘Flip Your Own Damn Burgers’: Progressives Blast Right-Wing Narrative on Jobs
Hiring has become difficult because some McJobs workers won’t risk their health for a crap wage. So the right wants to beat them down.
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Is This the Beginning of the End for Labour?
Brexit and Covid should have paved the way for a Labour romp. Instead, Labour tried to win a patriotism contest with the Tories and lost.
Read more...Why Rich Parents Have Rich Children
Looking at the channels through which the rich preserve their advantages across generations.
Read more...Michael Hudson Q&A in Webinar on 4000 Years of Money and Debt
The Q&A from a Michael Hudson talk on money, debt, and economic orthodoxy.
Read more...Webinar with Michael Hudson: A 4000-Year Perspective on Economy, Money and Debt
Michael Hudson gives a long historical account of the role of debt and money as a tool for promoting prosperity and political dominance.
Read more...Clarification of Spending/Inflation Constraints According to Modern Monetary Theory
Economists go on tilt with the supposed profligate implications of Modern Monetary Theory. But there are many ways to check demand.
Read more...So Much For May Day
On the peculiar decline of May Day.
Read more...Mark Blyth – An Inflated Fear of Inflation?
Mark Blyth explains why inflation in the U.S., Canada, & E.U. is highly unlikely: a room for more government spending and higher wages.
Read more...American Cities Have Long Struggled to Reform Their Police – but Isolated Success Stories Suggest Community and Officer Buy-In Might Be Key
A hard look at why police reform has failed, and what approaches might work.
Read more...America Hasn’t Reckoned with the Coup That Blasted the Black Middle Class
The Wilmington coup is the only successful and lasting armed overthrow of a legitimate municipal government in American history on U.S soil.
Read more...Private Equity and Hedge Fund Barons Having a Hissy Over Carried Interest Grift Because Biden Isn’t Staying Bought
The end of the carried interest loophole has been long in coming. Will the sell-by date finally arrive?
Read more...Why Workers Memorial Day Is a National Call to Action
On the odd decision by American labor unions to have their own solidarity day, the Workers Memorial Day, rather than participate in May Day.
Read more...Even Credentialed Young People Pessimistic About Their Futures
The fact that even well-placed young people are insecure and pessimistic is further proof of the impact of inequality and rentierism.
Read more...We Really Do Need to Rethink the Economics of Saving, Most of Which Is Nonsense
Savings plays an important role in household management (or does when the household isn’t desperate), yet economists don’t get it.
Read more...The Corporate Food Takeover
Corporate ownership in many sectors of food production has risen and is set to increase further. Another rentier program well underway.
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