The COVID-19 specter led Congresscritters to coo reassurance, and dump shares. A modest proposal: require immediate disclosure of trades.
Read more...In the face of massive economic calamity caused by coronavirus, Michael Hudson argues a debt jubilee is the only way to avoid a depression.
Read more...The Fed just told everyone to assume the brace position.
Read more...Jeff Bezos continues to abuse his workers, this time (or more accurately, again) at Whole Foods.
Read more...On establishing legal responsibility for employment in the fissured workplace.
Read more...Sanders seeks to make Biden pay for his trade record in Tuesday’s Michigan primary. Idaho, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, and Washington also hold primaries on the same day.
Read more...How the ordering of the world to suit the 1% – also known as plutonomy – has generated long-overdue “populist” pushback.
Read more...Yes, sports fans, Pentagon spending is even worse than you imagined.
Read more...Cutting subsidies for private rental housing did not do much to reduce overall spending or lower rents but caused a lot of pain.
Read more...A bona fide sharing “economy”: Freecycle plans to add a lending and borrowing tool to encourage people to share with friends and neighbors.
Read more...Is Boris Johnson misunderstood?
Read more...Brexit is being used to accelerate the neoliberal race to the bottom.
Read more...The Democrats’ civil war over who controls the party may be coming to a head.
Read more...A closer look at Bloomberg’s attempted takeover of the DNC.
Read more...Johns Hopkins announces it’s eliminated legacy admissions, sparking a wider debate. Will other institutions follow?
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