Why So Many Americans Are Voting Against the Status Quo, in One Chart
This chart shows how much the bottom 90% has lost ground while the top 10% has pulled away.
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How the “Maximize Shareholder Value” Myth Weakens Companies and Economic Systems
A multi-level, biological perspective on business shows how simple-minded ideas like “maximize shareholder value” and tolerating predators aredestructive.
Read more...Bogus Defenses of Tax-Dodging Corporate Inversions
How corporate executives mislead the public about the economic effects of inversions and other tax strategies that book profits overseas.
Read more...Sanders and Class Struggle in the Democratic Party
Sanders versus Democratic Party’s institutionalized corruption and domination by billionaires.
Read more...Clinton Policies Have Hurt Women
Clinton preaches trickle-down feminism, which just like trickle-down economics, serves only the interests of those at the top of the food chain.
Read more...Weak Wall Street Pay Reform Proposals May Have Some Unintended Positive Effects
A long-overdue plan to reform Wall Street pay is seriously flawed but could have a positive effect in spite of itself.
Read more...Sanders Constituency Will Shape U.S. Politics for the Next Decade
Will the Sanders campaign spark fundamental change?
Read more...We Stopped Pfizer’s Tax Dodge, Now Let’s End the Buybacks
Why companies, particularly ones that get large taxpayer subsidies like Pfizer, should not be allowed to manipulate their stock prices thorough buybacks.
Read more...Can Sanders Win Over Rich Voters in New York?
After Wisconsin, the next round of primaries in concentrated in more affluent East Coast states, and Clinton does well with rich voters. Can Sanders make enough headway with them?
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Rebellion Will Not Go Away
Rebellion watch: Why the natives will remain restless.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: Donald Trump Understands the Nexus Between Trade and Immigration
By linking immigration and trade, however crudely, Trump has exposed the broader paradox and inherent contradictions which lurk between the two.
Read more...Thomas Frank: How Democrats Created Liberalism of the Rich
Make no mistake; the Democrats engineered the Third Way faux liberalism that sold out the working classes to benefit the rich and their minions.
Read more...Oxfam Report on Rent Seeking Among the Top Wealthy Reinforces Neoliberal Shibboleths
A well-meaning effort to analyze rent-seeking goes off the rails.
Read more...How McKinsey Helped Turn Big Pharma into a Rent Extraction Business
How McKinsey contributed to the devolution of Big Pharma.
Read more...Bill Black: How Many Lies Can the WSJ Pack into a Chart on Liar’s Loans?
Bill Black is not happy about the revisionist history on liar’s loans. And separately, this piece is a useful exercise in the critical reading of narratives.
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