VSPs Get Their Way With Budget Deal: Social Security Benefits Are Cut
Yes, there were cuts in the Social Security “Little Bargain” just concluded.
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Hillary Clinton Indicates She is Open to Raising the Retirement Age
Hillary Clinton again reveals her inner neoliberal in suggesting that raising the retirement age might not be a bad idea.
Read more...Is the Billionaire-Creating Carried Interest Loophole an Endangered Species?
An internationally recognized tax expert told me a few months ago that the widely-mislabeled “carried interest” loophole was on its deathbed. A new PBS video lends some support to this bold call.
Read more...George Washington: The 6 Reasons China and Russia Are Catching Up to the U.S. Military
It’s a wonder the US was able to maintain its military dominance as long as it has, given the scale of looting.
Read more...“All Knew That This Interest Was Somehow The Cause of the War”
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
Read more...Time to Stop Tiptoeing Around the United States on Climate Change
U.S. obduracy on climate change has ensured that the world today is in the danger zone and will go critical soon.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren on How Clinton Backed Student Loan and Mortgage Debt Slavery with Bankruptcy “Reform”
A sorry chapter of Hillary Clinton’s legislative record was her vote in support of the 2005 bankruptcy “reform” bill.
Read more...British Euroskeptics Go Off the Deep End, Flog Bogus Portugal “Coup” Meme
Making sense of the “overly dynamic” process of forming a new government in Portugal in the wake of an inconclusive election.
Read more...Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Special Operations ‘Successes’ Around the World
To quote Andrew Bacevich: “There is no doubt that U.S. Special Operations forces are hard at it in lots of different places. It does not follow that they are thereby actually accomplishing anything meaningful.’”
Read more...Don Quijones: Barcelona Threatens to Print Parallel Currency, Madrid Seethes
Barcelona threatens to go rogue by issuing its own currency.
Read more...Weaker Unions Correlated with More Inequality, Higher Pay for Top Earners
The decline in union power plays an important role in explaining the rise in inequality in advanced economies.
Read more...Failure of Globalization and the Fourth Estate
“Free Trade,” the banner of Globalization, has not only wrecked the world’s economy, it has left Western Democracy in shambles.
Read more...New York City and Missouri Pensions Follow California Treasurer Chiang on Private Equity Transparency…..Sort Of
The New York City and Missouri public pensions are giving more legitimacy to calls for private equity fee disclosure. But what about the details?
Read more...Joe Firestone: Fiscal Myths of Campaign 2016
Most of the world, and most notably the United States, is in the grip of fiscal myths fostered by the ideology of neoliberalism. It’s time to debunk them.
Read more...What Could Possibly Go Wrong (Next) in the Middle East?
A look at the wreckage the US has created in the Middle East, and an assessment of the prospects.
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