Bill Black: When Is Crime Not a Crime? When It Is White-Collar Crime
Yet another demonstration of how the media airbrushes out the very concept of white-collar crime.
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Bill Black: BREXIT – Tony Blair
Tony Blair sides with the bankers and against the popular will. Quelle surprise!
Read more...Why Don’t Americans Take More Vacations? Blame It on Independence Day
Independence Day’s roots as an “Americanization” PR project to increase acceptance of immigrants who competed with native-born workers.
Read more...Nassim Nicholas Taleb: How to Own a Slave
In what ways has the employer-employee relationship come to resemble slavery?
Read more...UK, EU Talk Past Each Other on Brexit Negotiations
The disconnect between the UK and EU over Brexit basics revealed yesterday was disconcerting.
Read more...Is Common-Sense Public Policy Necessarily “Innovative”?
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. (By Betteridge’s Law, no.) Readers will recall that I have often flagged “innovative,” along with “disruptive,” “startup,” “founder”, and (in the business context) “ecosystem” as bullshit tells, and recommended that if you hear such con artist’s patter in a crowd, you should put your hand on your wallet or clutch […]
Read more...Why Income Inequality Will Get Worse Before It Gets Better
A reader critical thinking exercise! Debunk an article that justifies rising inequality in the guise of offering policy advice
Read more...Satyajit Das: What If Anything Does Brexit Really Signify?
An appraisal of the Brexit sound and fury.
Read more...Brexit: Fear, Loathing, and Anger on Both Sides of the Channel
Politicians in the UK and the EU are virtually at each other’s throats over Brexit.
Read more...Brexit: Pulling the Signal Out of the Noise
Getting a better picture on Brexit: the underlying class and economic stresses and how that might play into what happens next.
Read more...MIchael Hudson: The Slow Crash
Michael Hudson discusses some of his favorite themes; debt deflation, the high cost of consumer debt, negative interest rates.
Read more...Brexit: The Crisis Begins
The Brexit vote was a stunning repudiation of neoliberalism and austerity. But what comes next?
Read more...Michael Hudson: Socrates on Debt and Ibn Khaldun on the Cyclical Rise and Fall of Societies
Socrates described how the use of debt by the elite to strip the lower orders of their property sets up revolutions.
Read more...Sanders Has Leverage But Clinton Will Never Bargain
Clinton can offer nothing meaningful to Sanders and his supporters, and therefore Sanders has no reason to capitulate. Not hard to understand unless you are committed to not understanding that.
Read more...How Financial Crises Produce Political Polarization
Financial crises move the struggles between debtors and creditors into the political sphere.
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