Gerald Friedman: Why “Liberal” Economists Dish Out Despair
“Liberal” economists still embrace the dominant pseudo-Keynesian orthodoxy despite its failure in the financial crisis and its role in increasing inequality.
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Credentialism and Corruption: Neoliberalism as Lived Experience
How do these people live with themselves.
Read more...America: No Country for Old People
It’s not easy being old and it’s only going to get harder in America.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Look Ahead: Neither Party Can Win Without Winning Independents
Independents are key to winning the general election, particularly for the Democrats, And they are not moderate Republicans; they are now pretty radical.
Read more...How Not to Audit the Pentagon: The Military Waste Machine Is Running Full Speed Ahead
A look at wretched excess, Pentagon style.
Read more...How Bill Clinton’s Mass Incarceration Policies Fed Rising Higher Education Costs and Student Debt Burdens
The costs of Bill Clinton’s mass incarceration policies are even higher than you thought.
Read more...Bill Black: Hillary and Bill and Paul Krugman Race to the Right to Stop the Bern
Bill Clinton repeats urban legends to defend his crime bill, which Hillary advocated, that lead to the mass incarceration of blacks.
Read more...Bill Black: The Myth that Obama’s Taking Huge Contributions from Wall Street Was Fine
The notion that Obama and Clinton weren’t influenced by large Wall Street donations is laughable.
Read more...Bill Black: AEI Pushes Government Propaganda Telling Women to Marry Schlubs
Why exhorting poor people to marry more often is right wing propaganda in lieu of real policies to address poverty.
Read more...What Happens When America’s Kids Confront Extreme Inequality?
A hopeful account and some lessons about inequality from Chelsea. But can we really generalize from this case?
Read more...Bill Black: Krugman on the Corruption of Our Nation via Perverse Incentives
Black shreds Krugman’s latest attack on Sanders.
Read more...Paul Ryan Sorry for Calling Americans “Takers.” Let’s Talk About the Real Takers.
Rana Foroohar’s new book, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, addresses what Paul Ryan conveniently left out.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Rebellion Will Not Go Away
Rebellion watch: Why the natives will remain restless.
Read more...Campbell Brown: The New Leader of the Propaganda Arm of School Privatization
How a former anchor is helping the billionaire-backed charter lobby misrepresent school privatization as “reform”.
Read more...Thomas Frank: How Democrats Created Liberalism of the Rich
Make no mistake; the Democrats engineered the Third Way faux liberalism that sold out the working classes to benefit the rich and their minions.
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