Freeports Are Dangerous
Rishi Sunak is still flogging his failed freeports initiative as a success. If they were to take off, the winners would be dodgy operators.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
A National Cartel Fixing Rental Housing Prices: The Scandal Continues to Grow
The company at the heart of the rapacious conspiracy finally makes a statement following FBI raid in Atlanta and increasingly incriminating and devastating details.
Read more...Project 2025: The US Far-Right Plan to Undermine Democracy and Rights Globally
The Heritage Project 2025 plan is a program for the next president to roll back rights in US and abroad – including draft policies
Read more...Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
The Elon Musk $48 Billion stock-option package and its implications for the EV transition
Read more...Giorgia Meloni and Europe’s Future
Does Italy’s decades-long breakdown of the social contract provide a glimpse of what’s coming for Germany and the rest of Europe?
Read more...Corporate Landlords’ Profits Soar as Tenants Drown in Rent Hikes and Fees
Cheerleading about a flat CPI ignores the housing, with tenants generally and the ones with corporate landlords not getting relief
Read more...The EU “Center” Embraces the Right Kind of “Right”
A look at Europe’s elections and a comparison of the neoliberal, pro-war center with a right that abandons its EU and NATO skepticism begs the question, what’s the difference between the two?
Read more...Mount Sinai Eye & Ear Nurses Rally for Layoff Plan as Beth Israel Shutdown Looms
New York City’s Mount Sinai is trying to shutter acquired Beth Israel and its own respected eye and ear facility despite state opposition
Read more...The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: A Review
A cogent discussion of the complex, accelerating legitimacy crisis masked by bleats about “defending our democracy”
Read more...‘A Monstrosity’: Biden Blasted Over Planned Executive Order on Asylum
Biden attempts to throw big bone to the right on immigration. But will he satisfy anyone?
Read more...Remember Headlines 2 Weeks Ago, Labor Market “Suddenly” Weakens as Unemployment Claims “Spike”: It Just Got Unwound
A wee unpacking of unemployment data to show how Fed rate cut cheerleaders are still ahead of themselves
Read more...Why Corporations Choose Lawlessness to Fight Unions
Workers at companies like Apple and Starbucks face armies of union-busting lawyers advising employers to repeatedly violate labor laws.
Read more...Housing, Not Handcuffs
US policy towards the homeless becomes ever more mean-spirited, apparently to justify not dealing with the problem of unaffordable housing.
Read more...Trump Versus Biden: The Substantial Fall in Real Wages for Most Workers Under Biden
An important new paper contradicts Democratic pundits, showing that most workers lost in real wage terms under Biden
Read more...US Trade Desperation: Trump Insider Robert Lightheizer Recommends Third-World Capital Controls to Achieve Balanced Trade
New desperate ideas to fix chronic US trade imbalances, like capital controls, are getting a hearing.
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