David Cay Johnston on the Perils of Our Growing Inequality
David Cay Johnston is a clear and lively conversationalist, and I anticipate readers will enjoy his discussion of his work over the last 20 years on inequality.
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Where Have All the Fiduciaries Gone? Even Rich People Can’t Escape Being Screwed
A new case filed against Deutsche Bank’s wealth management business shows that even money can’t buy safety from predatory finance.
Read more...Michael Perelman: Vietnam – Invitation to a Morass
How the Vietnam War helped usher in neoliberalism, financialization of the economy, and the use of military spending as stealth stimulus.
Read more...European Voters Deliver the Revenge of the Nation-State
Were the results of the European elections a tremor or an earthquake?
Read more...Bruce Eckle on Reinventing Business
Even if you don’t agree with all of Eckle’s views on reinventing business, his effort to identify and strip away misguided conventional wisdom is a productive place to start.
Read more...Maggie Mahar: How Doctors Stymie the Wishes of the Elderly
A detailed picture of how doctors and medical facilities stack the deck against aged patients and their relatives.
Read more...The Elderly as a Source of Profit
Eldercare is really the limit case of health care for profit. Stick a tube in the helpless body, extract rent. It’s brilliant in its simplicity!
Read more...Michael Perelman: The Rise of Free-Trade Imperialism and Military Keynesianism
On the economic and political origins of America’s stealth imperialism and military Keynesianism, as opposed to Keynes’ original version.
Read more...Growing Public Awareness and Concern About the “Attitudinal Model” of Supreme Court Votes
Finally, the media and analysts are getting a tad more candid about what Supreme Court decisions are really about.
Read more...The Tragedy of the Soma Mine-Workers: A Crime of Peripheral Capitalism Unleashed
Yves here. This post explains how the horrific mine explosion in Western Turkey, which has officially claimed nearly 300 lives as the death count continues to rise, was not an accident but the direct result of privatization and circumvention of safety standards.
Read more...Philip Pilkington: Cody Wilson and the Language of Power
How a conversation with a crypto anarchist put the BBC on tilt and unwittingly provided a lesson in how power issues are kept out of polite conversation.
Read more...More Polite Handwringing About Student Debt Mess
The absence of serious discussion of an only-worsening student debt problem is troubling.
Read more...The Economics of Apologies
Apologies really do matter, but they can’t be offered on the cheap.
Read more...Rhode Island Senate Considering “Maximum Wage” Legislation
Why Rhode Island’s maximum wage proposal is a potential big step toward reducing income inequality.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Virtual Worlds and the Future of Economics
Varoufakis spoke with Senior Editor Peter Suderman about what he learned as a video game economist, the failings of his chosen academic profession, and how computer games and virtual online worlds might be the future of macroeconomics.
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