Free Trade in Rhetoric, Not in Practice
The gap between the posturing and practice of free trade.
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Americans Increasingly Angry With Corporate Desertions via Tax Inversions
Tax inversions damage the already low credibility of Corporate America.
Read more...Where Did the Bernie Sanders Movement Come From? The Internet.
How the digital divide explains where Sanders did well, and not as well.
Read more...Unsealed Documents Reveal Former White House Officials Violated Fannie/Freddie Conservatorship Rules, Apparently to Advance Bank-Enriching “Reforms”
The Administration has refused to turn over over 12,000 documents in a lawsuit against how the government operated Fannie and Freddie in their conservatorship. The major bone of contention is that Treasury stripped them of all profits, which damaged the remaining private shareholders. But the unsealing of a small batch of government records shows why […]
Read more...Reader Note on Strikes in France: “Pass the Popcorn”
Transportation unions and airport workers are joining strikes in France to protest new labor laws,….right before the Euro Cup and tourist season.
Read more...The Pentagon’s Budgetary War on Accountability
Why the Pentagon always has the money it needs, and a lot more too.
Read more...Neoliberalism’s Press Gangs: How Markets Raise Costs
Neliberalim’s press gangs – forcing citizens to participate in capitalism when even it produces worse outcomes than public ownership would.
Read more...The 7 Biggest Myths and Lies About Social Security
An antidote to Peterson Foundation anti-Social Security Kool Aid.
Read more...Destroying Medicare to Save ObamaCare: Hillary Clinton’s “Public Option” Plan
Clinton tries to work the “public option” bait-and-switch plan again. If the plan ever passed, it would send Medicare into a death spiral.
Read more...SEC Conference Features Former Official Calling for Fraudsters to be Protected from Career Harm
No matter how bad you think things are at the SEC, you routinely find out that they are worse, as a recent conference revealed.
Read more...How the Democratic Party Became Undemocratic: The History of the Superdelagates
The origin of how the Democratic party made sure its elites remained firmly in charge.
Read more...The New Abnormal: “Disequilibrium Flirting with Deflationary Depression”
The New Abnormal: a period of profound disequilibrium as the aftershocks of the Crisis collide with and complicate structural changes.
Read more...Sanders and Class Struggle in the Democratic Party
Sanders versus Democratic Party’s institutionalized corruption and domination by billionaires.
Read more...Quelle Surprise! US Big Business Prefers Clinton to Trump by 2:1 Margin
Major corporations generally prefer a former Goldwater Girl to the transgressive Trump. But will they spend enough backing her to make a difference?
Read more...Gerald Friedman: How the Dogmatic Despair of Mainstream Economists Brought You Donald Trump
Mainstream economists to ordinary citizens: Drop dead. Or more accurately: Sorry, nothing more can be done for you. There is No Alternative.
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