How Economics and Race Drive America’s Great Divide
On how race plays into the operation of a “dual economy”.
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Guess What? You Can Pay $600 a Month to be Homeless in San Francisco
Being homeless in San Francisco is not necessarily a bargain.
Read more...Bond, Treasury Bond: 007 is Out of Cash, but Your Government Can’t Be
So now even austerity is getting product placement in movies….
Read more...Why Paul Krugman Blew It on His ‘Solution’ for Gentrification
One of the fallacies of proposals to limit gentrification is the idea that promoting more development in cities leads to more affordable housing. Stratified markets mean this is not a simply “supply and demand” problem.
Read more...America to Working Class Whites: Drop Dead!
On the fallen status of lower-class whites, and the poor prospects for many of their betters.
Read more...The Power Of Nightmares 3: The Shadows In The Cave (BBC-2004)
Osama Bin Laden’s cave — and Plato’s.
Read more...What Are the Only 3 States That Score Higher Than a D+ in the Corruption Index?
The highest grade (the least corruption) goes to Alaska: C.
Read more...From G20 to Labour20
Labour20 set forth important goals not just for labor but for the economy and broader society. But does organized labor have the credibility to promote these aims?
Read more...The Power of Nightmares 1: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (BBC-2004)
An Adam Curtis documentary on the similarities between the politics of neo-conservatives, and the politics of Islamist radicals.
Read more...The REALLY ANNOYING Don’t-Wanna-Subsidize-Wealthy-Kids’-College-Tuition Canard
Yves here. Readers know I have a weakness for righteous rants…
Read more...Join Occupy the SEC in Urging the Congress to Oppose H.R. 4002 (“Criminal Code Improvement Act of 2015”)!
Support Occupy the SEC in opposing a bill that would give white collar criminals a new, improved “get out of jail free” card.
Read more...US Intergenerational Mobility: 1850-1940
Intergenerational income mobility is currently not very high in the US compared to other developed countries. This column shows that US intergenerational income equality was high in the 19th century but plummeted between 1900 and 1920. The income-mobility ladder was thus pulled up during the so-called Great Gatsby era.
Read more...Microaggression and Macroexploitation
Microaggression, to have appeal and application outside the academy, can be usefully situated in a larger context, which I have labelled macroexploitation. Also, David Brooks.
Read more...10 Economic Facts that Power the Sanders Insurgency
Why are so many drawn to the Sanders message? It’s because so many of us want to stop our entire society from crumbling beneath the destructive power of runaway inequality.
Read more...The Growing Intergenerational Divide in Europe
A review of pension reforms implemented by several countries In Europe, with and policy recommendations to address the intergenerational divide.
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