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Puerto Rico: 1427 Hurricane Maria Deaths

Government of Puerto Rico presents report to Congress acknowledging 1427 Hurricane Maria details– more than twenty times the previous estimate it had given. Meanwhile, prospects for meaningful debt relief remain slight.

Baltimore Set To Be First Major US City to Ban Water Privatization

The city of Baltimore is poised to denounce the privatization fairy and reject privatization of its water and sewage system.

Richard Murphy: Writers of Labour’s “Fiscal Rule” Lash Themselves to the Austerity Mast

Labour’s economists show their Third Way colors and advocate austerity-generating policy rules that might as well have been penned by former Treasury Secretary, later Citigroup vice chairman Bob Rubin.

For Many College Students, Hunger Can ‘Make It Hard To Focus In Class’

Up to half of college students report that they were either not getting enough to eat or were worried about it.

Inequality and Ordinary Living Standards in Rich Countries

How the evolution of the rise in inequality in the US has dominated and distorted economists’ and pundits’ commentary; data show that some pet generalizations don’t hold up.

Austerity Caused Brexit

Yves here. Lambert sent me a copy of the underlying paper on Brexit voting patterns a week ago, suggesting I write it up. I sat on it due to focusing on seemingly more pressing stories, plus being behind on administrativa due to travel. I’ve embedded the article at the end of this post. This finding […]

The Michael Hudson Report: The “Next” Financial Crisis and Public Banking as the Response

Michael Hudson explains how we’re still in the crisis that started in 2007-2008.

Taxcast: A Firewall to Protect EU Citizens from the Big Four Accountancy Firms and the Tax Avoidance Lobby

In the Tax Justice Network’s July 2018 Taxcast, Vickie Cann and John Christensen examine a proposal for a firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby, as well as look at a new report from the Corporate Europe Observatory.

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Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class

Puerto Rico: 1427 Hurricane Maria Deaths

Baltimore Set To Be First Major US City to Ban Water Privatization

Richard Murphy: Writers of Labour’s “Fiscal Rule” Lash Themselves to the Austerity Mast

For Many College Students, Hunger Can ‘Make It Hard To Focus In Class’

Inequality and Ordinary Living Standards in Rich Countries

Austerity Caused Brexit

The Michael Hudson Report: The “Next” Financial Crisis and Public Banking as the Response

Taxcast: A Firewall to Protect EU Citizens from the Big Four Accountancy Firms and the Tax Avoidance Lobby

The Middle Precariat: The Downwardly Mobile Middle Class

Michael Hudson: Argentina’s New $50 Billion IMF Loan Is Designed to Replay its 2001 Crisis

Argentina 20 Years On: Has the IMF Really Changed Its Ways?

America’s Subprime Economy

John Feffer: Trump Doctrine as Kamikaze Antiglobalism

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