Wolf Richter: Why this Job Market is Still Terrible: The Politically Incorrect Numbers Everyone is Hushing up
For individuals, the job market has barely improved since the Great Recession.
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Trumpbusters: Who You Gonna Call?
Is Hillary Clinton or Jill Stein a Trumpbuster?
Read more...How ‘Competitiveness’ Became One of the Great Unquestioned Virtues of Contemporary Culture
How political authority has legitimated and promoted the questionable goal of competitiveness.
Read more...Contradictions at the Kitchen Table: Sanders, Obama, and Clinton at the Democratic National Convention
The power imbalance between labor and capital, as revealed by Presidential speeches at the Democrat National Convention.
Read more...The Immorality and Brutal Violence of Extreme Greed
Yves here. Please welcome guest blogger #SlayTheSmaugs. For those of you who have neither read The Hobbit nor seen the movies, “Smaug” is probably a meaningless word. In The Hobbit, Smaug is a massive and vicious dragon. He sits on a pile of gold and jewels that would bury a football stadium’s grass several feet […]
Read more...Gaius Publius: Two Ways of Looking at a Plagiarism
Trust me, this post on Melania Trump’s plagiarism does not go where you expect it to go.
Read more...What Next for the EU?
An informative, high-level overview of how the EU got to where it is now, its internal contradictions, and the prospects for resolving them.
Read more...Sanders Delegation Plotting in Public and Secretly to Shake Up Democratic Convention
Many Sanders delegates are planning rearguard actions at the Democratic convention.
Read more...How California Targets Poor People of Color for Profit
California cities take a page from the Ferguson playbook: targeting poor minority group members people for fines, in this case traffic fines.
Read more...Rajiv Sethi: On Arrest Filters and Empirical Inferences
Wait ’til you get to “evidence” in quotes…
Read more...8 Countries Where Rampant Inequality Has Led to Violence
Yes, Virginia, inequality is dangerous but that does not stop many of the really rich from wanting more. us.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Picking Up James Comey’s Pieces — What He Did, What He Should Have Done & Why
On the logic, such as it was, of FBI chief James Comey’s decision to let Hillary Clinton off the hook for her e-mail chicanery.
Read more...Louis Proyect: Rooting for the Bulls
Bullfighting and the running of the bulls as symbols of Spain’s feudal past, and why they persist.
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: The Opioid Epidemic and “the Looting Professional Class”
The professional classes as a transmission vector in the opioid epidemic.
Read more...How MBA Programs Drive Inequality
How MBA programs reinforced the inequality-promoting neoliberal economic model.
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