The EU Sows the Seeds of Its Own Destruction
Brussels’ increasing attacks on the working class mirror decades-long Italian efforts that have caused a collapse in standard of living and trust in the EU.
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Higher Minimum Wages and Mixed Effects on Health
A challenge to arguments about the health benefits of increasing minimum wages. Readers?
Read more...Profit Inflation Is Real
More evidence that companies hiking prices because they can is a significant driver of our current inflation.
Read more...Bill Black and Michael Hudson on Corruption in Finance
A deep dive into why big money players have become critical to big corruption.
Read more...Why Student Debt Is So High
The student loan program is a government-enabled transfer of wealth. How surprising is that?
Read more...Small Town and Rural Hospitals Are at Risk of Closing Due to Funding
More pillaging of America, here in hospitals in flyover, where it won’t be noticed much before those practices start moving to the core.
Read more...Biden Signs Off on Restarting Student Debt. Why?
Do student debt concessions prove Democrats are just terrible negotiators? The real reason Party leaders do the debt ceiling dance.
Read more...Why Don’t We Get the Politicians We Need?
Some thoughts about why US and UK politicians are so bad
Read more...As Medicaid Purge Begins, ‘Staggering Numbers’ of Americans Lose Coverage
In what’s known as the Medicaid unwinding, states are combing through rolls and deciding who stays and who goes. People who are no longer eligible or don’t complete paperwork in time will be dropped.
Read more...The Strange Death of the Liberal Individual
Yanis Varoufakis argues that techno-capitalism has fragmented the individual by coopting attention, undermining liberty.
Read more...American Officials Erase US Role in Empowering Their New Number One Enemy China
American elites have magically forgotten they were the ones who moved US industry to China in order to make a buck.
Read more...Denials of Health Insurance Claims Are Rising — And Getting Weirder
Americans continue to suffer due to the Obama administration’s failure to take on health insurers.
Read more...Origins of Debt: Michael Hudson Reveals How Financial Oligarchies in Greece & Rome Shaped Our World
Michael Hudson explains how the treatment of debt winds up determing social structure.
Read more...The Move Toward a Four-Day Workweek Obscures Low Pay
Yves here. Like author Sonali Kolhatkar, your humble blogger has been skeptical of a four day, or better yet, 32 hour workweek without an increase in worker compensation. By Sonali Kolhatkar, an award-winning multimedia journalist. She is the founder, host, and executive producer of “Rising Up With Sonali,” a weekly television and radio show that […]
Read more...Workers in the South Are Defying History with Union Wins
Union campaigns are scoring more successes in the South despite the high-profile defeat at the Amazon wareouse in Bessemer, Alabama
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