Category Archives: Income disparity

Why Inflation Sticks Around: The Role of Class Warfare in Price Persistence

A new twist on inflation: how workers and corporates trying to preserve their financial position has the effect of perpetuating inflation

Wars, Taxation, and Increases in Representation

A historical analysis shows that greater representation was a bargain autocratic, here feudal, rulers had to strike to get support for war

“The Corporate Takeover of Housing”

Debunking some widely held misperceptoins about why US housing is so pricey.

Yanis Varoufakis: Who Needs Marx in 2025?

To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx.

U.S. Political System Is Bought, Not Broken. A New Party Won’t Fix the Basic Problem.

Real reform in American politics won’t come new parties — but from breaking investors’ grip and rebuilding power from the ground up.

Possible Kraft Heinz Breakup: A Buffett Investment Failure, Thanks to Healthier Tastes Among the Better Off and Need for Better Bargains for the Rest

A badly under-perfoming merger, Kraft and Heinz, is set to be reversed. Did that deal undermine the giants adapting to changing tastes?

What Does the US’ Increasing Emulation of Israel Augur for the Country’s Future?

As cooperation in the killing fields of Gaza continues, the genocidal ideology comes home. What is the way out of this madness?

Billionaires Flail About Trying to Beat Mamdani; Wall Street Journal Describes Shambolic Plan to Spend $20 Million

What fun! Billionaires running around all hair on fire over their inabilty to do much to check Mamdani.

That $20 Dress Direct from China Now Costs $30 After Trump Closed a Tariff Loophole – and the US Will Soon End the ‘De Minimis’ Exemption for the Rest of the World, too

How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China (and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.

Early Job Mentoring, Placement, and Training Boost Refugee Integration Without High Costs

Like it or not, advanced economies are committed to immigration to counter low birthrates. Better refugee integration reduces the friction.

The Sad (Very Familiar) New York Times and Its Mamdani Hit Piece

The hit parade, as in the hit piece parade, on New York City mayor candidate Zohran Mamdani, is still in high gear.

The Gates Foundation’s Global Reach Expands, to Mixed Reviews

The Gates Foundation steps into the void left by the U.S., and brings with it limited accountability, conflicts of interest, and a history of failure in its stated mission.

How Global Value Chains, Much Hyped by Development Experts, Slowed Growth and Preserved Inequality in Middle Income Countries

Tackling a pro-multinational development canard which looks to have made the so-called middle income trap worse.