Is There a Global Future for Unions?
A personal retrospective on the forces driving the rise and decline (and hopeful revival) of unions.
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Michael Hudson: De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
Michael Hudson on how the US was able to turn its change from creditor to debtor to its advantage.
Read more...Brexit: Will Boris or Won’t He?
Does Johnson have any Brexit wriggle room?
Read more...Hospitals Block ‘Surprise Billing’ Measure In California
Hospitals flex their muscles and the public loses.
Read more...It Is Time To Start Forgiving Student Loans – And Here Is What It Will Cost
A far-ranging plan for cleaning up the student loan mess.
Read more...Transfer (Mis)pricing, the Jewel in Every Multinational Enterprise’s Crown
Transfer pricing: How developing countries lose $3 billion every day through an accounting trick that allows corporations to avoid paying tax.
Read more...PG&E Neglected Maintenance for Years Despite Known Fire Risk; Judge Demands Prompt and Clear Answers to WSJ Expose
A Wall Street Journal expose of PG&E’s willful failure to maintain its transmission lines, directly tied to California’s most lethal fire, led a judge to demand answers.
Read more...Recycling Woes: Indonesia Sends Waste Shipment Back to Australia
Developing countries are refusing to accept shipments of waste for recycling; China’s new rules on scrap metal may disrupt the worldwide market for such recycling.
Read more...Kip Sullivan on Why the Bernie Sanders Bill Is Not Single Payer
Jon Gruber’s shabby legacy lives on.
Read more...Should We Tax Wealth?
Kicking the tires of a wealth tax.
Read more...Mobility and the Desire for Sovereignity in Europe
Lack of geographic mobiliity is a major culprit in the rise of nationalism.
Read more...Congress Sniffing Around Botched McKinsey Studies Depicted as Impairing Intelligence Agencies
McKinsey is in hot water again.
Read more...Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California. Now It’s Fighting Back.
Andrea Gabor, author of “After the Education Wars,” discusses how California is pushing back on millionaire-driven charter schools. Will the rest of the America follow?
Read more...”Maximum Pressure” Campaign Fails To Kill Off Iran’s Oil Exports
Iran and the US look deadlocked.
Read more...One Hundred Years After World War I, Are We Heading Back to the Abyss?
The odds of a major war, even one that could fracture the world order, appear uncomfortably high.
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