Lynn Parramore: Class of 2013 – All Dressed Up and No Place to Work
A weak job market, killer student loans and a crappy economy mean continued struggle for America’s college grads.
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Lynn Parramore: Half Lives – Why the Part-time Economy Is Bad for Everyone
Why is a whole job getting harder to find every day in America?
Read more...Dave Dayen on Student Loans as Medieval Indentures
Dave Dayen’s latest article at Salon makes a critical point about student debt, that is it fundamentally misleading to call it a loan.
Read more...Bill Black: Great Moments in Nobel Prize History – 2007 Winner Pumps for Plutocracy, Billionaire CEOs
The first article in a series by Black on the remarkable, in the bad sense of the work, work by Nobel prize winners on regulation.
Read more...WSJ Bemoans Rise in Rationality, Um, Decline in Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking
It’s hard to know where to begin with a story up at the Wall Street Journal, Risk-Averse Culture Infects U.S. Workers, Entrepreneurs.
Read more...Lynn Parramore: Guess What? Fewer Americans Call Themselves Economic Conservatives
New Gallup polls shows that economic conservatism is down, social liberalism is up.
Read more...Sasha Breger: How Big Finance is Eating the World’s Lunch Agricultural Wealth
If you hear a kind of whooshing, rushing noise, don’t worry—it’s not US jobs moving to China. Today’s great sucking sound is the sound of agricultural wealth being siphoned off into the global financial system.
Read more...Joe Firestone: Sorry Folks, Austerity’s Not Dead Yet!
By Joe Firestone, Ph.D., Managing Director, CEO of the Knowledge Management Consortium International (KMCI), and Director of KMCI’s CKIM Certificate program. He has taught political science as the graduate and undergraduate level and blogs regularly at Corrente, Firedoglake and Daily Kos as letsgetitdone. Cross posted from New Economic Perspectives
Read more...More Market State In Action: Consumers Treated Differently Under the Law Than Businesses
You thought corporate personhood was a bad thing? Think twice. You should be so lucky as to be a corporate person. They don’t just get treated like you and me, they are increasingly being treated better than you and me.
Read more...Barbara Parramore Speaks About Her Arrest in “Moral Monday Protests” Against Republican Railroading of Extreme Right-Wing Agenda in North Carolina
Yves here. NC intern Jessica Ferrer interviewed 80 year old Barbara Parramore, who was one of 57 arrested in North Carolina on May 20 as part of what has become weekly protests at the state General Assembly called “Moral Mondays”.
Read more...Nathan Tankus: New York City Public Libraries Attack Alert – Privatizing Prized Locations and Cutting Budget by 35%
By Nathan Tankus, a student and research assistant at the University of Ottawa. You can follow him on Twitter at @NathanTankus
Now that pubic libraries have “done their jobs” (in FIRE sector terms) they can do one more thing for finance and real estate: be killed for private sector fun and profit.
Read more...Is Apple Risking Its Brand Overseas With Its Tax Gimmicks?
For those immune to Apple lust or otherwise unwilling to cut the Cupertino giant slack just because it has sleek products and cool stores, a new article by tax maven Lee Sheppard at Forbes gives a layperson-friendly overview of how Apple managed to keep $44 billion of revenues out of the hands of the tax men.
Read more...Lynn Parramore: ‘Greed Is Good’ – Top 7 Most Piggish Commencement Speeches
Get out the barf bag! Here a few choice orations from some of the world’s most illustrious jerks.
Read more...Your Humble Blogger Appears on RT’s Truthseeker
We discuss how outsourcing and offshoring are more about transferring income from low-level workers to middle and senior level managers than cost savings.
Read more...Coming Corporate Control of Medicine Will Throw Patients Under the Bus
In the US, business freedom means the God-given right to exploit the vulnerability of the public. The example slouching into view is more corporate control over the practice of medicine. And based on the previews, it will make the horrors falsely attributed to socialized medicine look pale.
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