“How to Run a Cheap Foreign Labor Economic Model”
An illustration of how the debate on globalization too often, mistakenly, fixates on labor costs as a driver of “competitiveness”.
Read more...An illustration of how the debate on globalization too often, mistakenly, fixates on labor costs as a driver of “competitiveness”.
Read more...The UK is managing to make its bad Brexit situation worse.
Read more...Macroeconomists are making Steve Bannon look good.
Read more...It’s getting harder to put lipstick on the Uber pig.
Read more...More on how Google plans to tighten its chokehold on the Internet.
Read more...More bad news for the shale gas industry.
Read more...A perverse bit of good news: the super rich aren’t planning their survival moves any better than they are executing their leadership roles.
Read more...Another sign of economic insecurity: the pitch economy, where competition becomes more and more degrading.
Read more...Private school grade inflation is a small but nevertheless telling factor in how class mobility has fallen in the US.
Read more...Contrary to widespread misperceptions, we’ve never had free speech in America, and there are good reasons why not.
Read more...How Trump’s infrastructure plan is a thinly-disguised privatization and deregulation scam.
Read more...Debunking the latest Twitterverse fever-swamp claims about Russian influence, this time regarding “ties” to Charlottesville.
Read more...A critical look at some wishful thinking about climate change and China’s One Belt One Road initiative.
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