Biden acts like the heartless pol he is. He can’t keep up the pretense if someone wants to get between him and insurer profits.
Read more...The latest unemployment data calls into question the notion that anything more than a techical recovery is underway.
Read more...Drug price gouging is so widespread in the US that it seems unlikely that there will be enough outrage to limit coronavirus drug price gouging.
Read more...A hard look at charter school misleading ads, racial segregation, and dodgy economics.
Read more...The collapse of high-end freelance work isn’t just about the loss of incomes. If it persists long enough, it means the loss of capabilities.
Read more...A discussion of the state of capitailsm, with a European/Lebanase slant.
Read more...Tax is an enormously powerful tool for shaping economic policy and thus bears close watching.
Read more...Quelle surprise! Pentagon grifting continues apace, even in the face of a full-bore domestic crisis.
Read more...Michael Hudson explains why debt cancellation and turning banks into utilities is the only sound response to the cornacrisis.
Read more...Potentially thousands of vacant hotel rooms in New York City alone are ripe for conversion into permanent residences, deputy mayor, housing groups and hotel owners agree.
Read more...A review of the important new book “The Code of Capital: How the law creates wealth and inequality.”
Read more...A careful look at a new set of rescue schemes devised by some Serious Economists. Honestly, even Larry Summers could do better than this.
Read more...Why the Covid-19 bailouts are coming at a high social cost.
Read more...America’s police started out as muscle deployed against labor organizers.
Read more...Covid-19 rescues will reshape the economy, as we see in the US, with fat cats getting fatter. Will other countires make sounder choices?
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