Bill Black: Roger Cohen Laments his Inadequate Schadenfreude Because the Greeks Don’t Suffer Enough
Bill Black shreds a remarkably rancid anti-Greek screed.
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Why the Consensus Process Has a Poor Track Record in Activist Movements
Consensus decision-making, a process in which groups come to agreement without voting, has been a central feature of direct action movements for nearly 40 years. It has also not worked very well.
Read more...Even Affluent American Strongly Support Higher Taxes on the Rich
As they have for decades, Americans poll in favor of higher taxes on top earners.
Read more...Thanks for Your Helpful Responses to Our Call to Action
We thank readers for their considerable, valuable input on a recent call to action and discuss how we plan to use their ideas.
Read more...Bill Black: Sorkin on the Street’s Surge of Suicides – Ignoring the Obvious
Predictably, it never occurred to Andrew Ross Sorkin that being put in impossible ethical positions could be a cause of some of of Wall Street’s recent suicides.
Read more...Memo to Readers: If You Want to Beat Big Finance, You Need to Be Able to Take the Fight to Their Terrain
We are now 35 years into a finance-led counterrevolution. If you care about income inequality, student loan debt slavery, foreclosure abuses, and other products of the success of this effort, it behooves you, as Sun Tzu urged, to understand your enemy.
Read more...Cathy O’Neil: If You Redefine “Performance,” Magical Things Happen
A new study tries to justify high pay for supposedly top performers. But all it really does is prove that feedback loops are powerful.
Read more...8 Ways Robots Are Taking Over Our Jobs and Our World
Robots that replace workers are being prototyped in more and more areas, including some highly-paid professions.
Read more...Corruptionomics in Italy
As reader Li, an international road warrior, says, “America is getting to be just like Italy, except without the attractive men.”
Read more...The Shafting, Um, Sharing Economy
The Wall Street Journal, of all places, describes the dark economic underbelly of Uber and other Orwellianly-named “sharing” services.
Read more...The Happiness Industry: How Government and Big Businesses Manipulate Your Moods For Profit
How efforts to motivate and instill loyalty among workers and citizens by trying to mass produce happiness have backfired.
Read more...“The Art of the Gouge”: NYU as a Model for Predatory Higher Education
A group of 400 NYU faculty members documents how the school fleeces students to pay for gold-plated administrator pay and perks.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Power of Money
A new series of books on money gives an intriguing historical overview and winds up highlighting money as a implement of power relations.
Read more...William J. Astore: The American Military Uncontained, Chaos Spread, Casualties Inflicted, Missions Unaccomplished
An important, sobering description of how US military overreach became institutionalized.
Read more...Ilargi: Will Austerity Be the Straw that Breaks the EU AND the UK?
Cameron thinks he’s riding a major victory, and he will now be called upon to deliver on his election promises, which just so happen to include a deepening and acceleration of austerity measures.
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