The mayor of Phoenix describes the successful effort to impede electoral participation by minority voters by Maricopa County and calls for a Department of Justice investigation.
Read more...Classical economics recognized the costs of rent extraction, excessive borrowing, and encouraging speculation over commerce. Ideologues have turned those lessons on their head.
Read more...It should come as no surprise that the Peterson Institute has managed to model the impact of the TPP so that it does not increase unemployment.
Read more...Michael Hudson speaks with Justin Ritchie on his favorite topics, such as debt deflation, austerity, classical economists on rentiers, and the coming financial cold war.
Read more...Some economists argue that income inequality suggests intra-generational mobility in society. This column provides comprehensive evidence across a large number of advanced economies on the importance of intra-generational mobility and its relationship with earnings inequality. The findings do not support the belief that higher earnings inequality necessarily goes hand-in-hand with greater mobility over the working life. Higher inequalities are not systematically compensated by higher mobility opportunities.
Read more...A proposal for how to overcome the lack of consensus in Europe over the refugee crisis.
Read more...By David Dayen, a freelance writer (Salon, The Intercept, The New Republic, etc.) and author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud, which releases May 17, 2016 (available for pre-order now). Follow him on Twitter @ddayen. A couple of weeks ago, the Government Accountability Office saved the country’s […]
Read more...Walmart has played a huge role in promoting and funding the charter school movement and plans to expand much further.
Read more...A query to readers with children in or who have very recently graduated from public school: has education stagnated, as experts suggest, or is it getting worse?
Read more...Neoliberals want ordinary people to accept that their standard of living will decline. It’s not hard to see whose interest that story promotes.
Read more...Social Security enemy Larry Fink appears to have troublingly high odds of becoming the Clinton Treasury Secretary nominee.
Read more...The public is dissatisfied with charter schools and wants curbs put on them.
Read more...Clinton offers no details on her healthcare insurance scheme while her allies attack Sanders plan, often with easily debunked arguments.
Read more...How the real point of contention between Friedman and the Romers over the Sanders plan has been misconstrued.
Read more...Is Angela Merkel’s “Plan B” remark a Freudian slip, a recognition that like Varoufakis, she’s alienated so many people that she can no longer cinch a deal?
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