Don’t get us wrong. We really like EPI. But a new piece on Covid’s impact on low income workers has good analysis and out of date proposals.
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
IMF Surcharges: A Lose-Lose Policy for Global Recovery
The IMF seems unable to drop its punitive, self and “client” destructive habits.
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/7/2022
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‘Keep Pushing’: Momentum Grows Behind Effort to Ban Stock Trading
Will Congress move to ban its members from trading shares of stock while they’re in office?
Michael Hudson: America’s Real Adversaries Are Its European and Other Allies
America has gone off the deep end re Ukraine. It’s pressuring allies to engage in economic self-harm, which is not a relationship-builder
News Flash: CalPERS Invents Time Machine! Not News: CalPERS Again Lies in Suit Over Illegal Secret Board Meeting and Smears Former Board Member Margaret Brown as Diversion
CalPERS digs its hole even deeper in its effort to keep parts of a board transcript secret. What dirt does it contain?
Blinken’s Booby Traps – How The US Propaganda Paper Released In Madrid Proposes to Go to War With Russia While Claiming to Do The Opposite
The US seems to think it is too clever by half in dealing with Russia. But some parties close to the action, like Europeans, aren’t so keen.
Right to Repair: Massachusetts Auto Measure Stalls
Automakers have mounted a legal challenge to Massachusetts auto telematics right to repair statute. Will the Biden administration and the FTC seek to apply data rules and tools to vehicle telematics data?
The Great Amazon Land Grab – How Brazil’s Government Is Turning Public Land Private, Clearing the Way for Deforestation
At the U.N. climate summit in 2021, 141 countries – including Brazil – signed a pledge to end deforestation by 2030. Yet land grabs continue to place the Amazon ecosystem at risk.
How a Cooperative Run by the Formerly Incarcerated Is Reshaping Chicago’s Food Industry
In Chicago, the formerly incarcerated are prepping locally sourced meals for schools, nursing homes and transitional housing facilities.
Senators Have Re-Introduced the Highly Unpopular EARN IT Bill That Would Scan All Online Messages
The EARN IT Act would authorize a massive new private surveillance system, rolling back important privacy and security features
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/4/2022
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