Covid Spikes in Europe, US Before Winter Is Here
Covid is clearly not going away any time soon. The fact that things are looking bad this early does not bode well for the winter.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
UVA Health Still Squeezing Money From Patients — By Seizing Their Home Equity
Property liens are the hidden icebergs of patient medical debt, legal experts say, lying unseen, often for decades, before they surface to claim hard-won family savings or inheritance proceeds.
Read more...AOC and Other Top Progressives Urge Biden—If Elected—to Deny K Street, Wall Street Execs Top Cabinet Posts
Progressives pen letter to Biden asking him not to staff his administration with the usual corporate suspects; fat chance!
Read more...Latest Election Stunt Proves Uber and Lyft Are Their Own Worst Political Enemies
Quelle surprise! Uber and Lyft are acting in bad faith in their struggles to get out of being classified as employers.
Read more...Corporate Law Consequences: Amy Coney Barrett Nomination
Quick take on what the Amy Coney Barrett appointment means for various areas of corporate law and why Republicans are so keen to confirm her.
Read more...Low Labour Shortages Can Help Explain Sluggish Wage Growth
Real-time indicators based on qualitative survey data provided an overly optimistic picture of labour market conditions and wage growth in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
Read more...Rana Foroohar and Mark Blyth: How Deep Will the Depression Get?
Rana Roroohar and Mark Blyth discuss the elections, tech, China, and Covid v. recovery with Paul Jay.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: How Progressives Could Still Win the 21st Century
Could progressives obtain power through a Progressive International movement?
Read more...Election Violence in November? Here’s What the Research Says
Why worries about violence and worse, fascism come the fall are largely suburban pearl-clutching as opposed to well-founded fears.
Read more...Shareholder Capitalism’s Ugly Legacy
Debunking some of Milton Friedman’s destructive ideas, such shareholders, who only have residual claims in a company, ought to come first.
Read more...How Donald Trump Abandoned Workers After Promising to Bring Manufacturing Back to the U.S.
Restoring manufacturing to the US is a tall order. Not surprisingly, Trump’s approach has been unserious.
Read more...Why Trump’s Promise to Save Manufacturing Was One He Never Intended to Keep
Trump’s promise to save manufacturing jobs and rebuild infrastructure was all bluster, no surprise from the man known for stiffing workers.
Read more...How Hypocrites in High Places Have Contributed to the Riots in the Streets
Why the riots of this summer resulted from the ever-increasing exploitation of low-income Americans, and how a Job Guarantee would reverse this power imbalance.
Read more...Coronavirus Economic Distress Hitting Indebted Professionals
Coronavirus damage is working its way up the economic food chain and is now hitting professionals in a meaninful way.
Read more...It’s Time for a Debt “Jubilee”
Households and businesses are overloaded with debt. Richard Vague offers a set of proposals for how to restructure it.
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