Tom Ferguson: Who is Supporting Trump?
Our favorite curmudgeon, political scientist Tom Ferguson, appeared on Real News Network to tease some signal out of the considerable noise on Donald Trump.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
From G20 to Labour20
Labour20 set forth important goals not just for labor but for the economy and broader society. But does organized labor have the credibility to promote these aims?
Read more...The Disaster of Greek Austerity – What Next?
More on the ground readings on the impact of austerity in Greece.
Read more...The REALLY ANNOYING Don’t-Wanna-Subsidize-Wealthy-Kids’-College-Tuition Canard
Yves here. Readers know I have a weakness for righteous rants…
Read more...Marshall Auerback and Branko Milanovic Discuss Income Inequality: The Global Haves And Have-Nots In The 21st Century
A conversation between Marshall Auerback and Branko Milanovic on income inequality and the potential countervailing forces to its rise.
Read more...US Intergenerational Mobility: 1850-1940
Intergenerational income mobility is currently not very high in the US compared to other developed countries. This column shows that US intergenerational income equality was high in the 19th century but plummeted between 1900 and 1920. The income-mobility ladder was thus pulled up during the so-called Great Gatsby era.
Read more...To Fix Inequality and Steady the Economy, Think Radically
Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website Adair Turner, Chairman of the Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and former Chairman of Britain’s Financial Services Authority (2008-13), is the author of a new book that takes aim at economic and political orthodoxies, Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and […]
Read more...The Disaster of Greek Austerity
Data and on the ground reports on the high cost of Greek austerity.
Read more...How Pursuing “Competitiveness” Crushes Labor and Lowers Growth
Why pursuing national “competitiveness,” as in squeezing labor pay and rights, does not produce the promised benefit of more growth.
Read more...Full Text of TPP, Including Annexes, and Boy is it Nasty
Yes, sports fans, the TPP is as bad as you feared it might be….
Read more...Martin Wolf on the Low Labor Participation as the Result of the Crapification of Jobs
Why are more and more prime age people refusing to take jobs on offer?
Read more...Mussolini-Style Corporatism, aka Fascism, on the Rise in the US
While the new neoliberal economic order is not a replay of fascism,, there is a remarkable amount of inhibition in calling out the similarities where they exist.
Read more...Hillary Clinton Indicates She is Open to Raising the Retirement Age
Hillary Clinton again reveals her inner neoliberal in suggesting that raising the retirement age might not be a bad idea.
Read more...The Plutonomy Is Doing Fine
Oddly, the latest release of a report on the state of the plutonomy didn’t get as much attention as it warranted. We are doing our part to make up for this reporting lapse.
Read more...Weaker Unions Correlated with More Inequality, Higher Pay for Top Earners
The decline in union power plays an important role in explaining the rise in inequality in advanced economies.
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