The Price of Monopoly and Oligopoly Power: Why Rising Markups Hurt Innovation and Widen Inequality
More evidence of the cost of monopoly and oligopoly power.
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Rethinking Unemployment Insurance: New Evidence on Hidden Costs
Taking moral hazard among employed workers into account has substantial effects on the welfare implications of unemployment insurance
Read more...Paradise Is a Police State: Examining the Techno-Optimism of Billionaire Silicon Valley Investor (And Unofficial Trump Administration Adviser) Marc Andreessen
The unlimited AI and energy now being unleashed is supposed to usher in a new utopia centered around low wages and prices. So why are Andreessen and friends so intent on a police state as part of the grand experiment we’re all being enlisted in?
Read more...Will Trump Take On the Housing Cartels?
The DOJ case against RealPage for orchestrating a rental housing price-fixing cartel will tell us a lot about the economic direction of Trump 2.0.
Read more...Anora: A Refreshingly Radical Depiction of Sex Work on Film
The film’s representation of sex workers as deserving of respect is a quiet, radical act.
Read more...Could Chinese Control Over Strategic Minerals Coupled with US Corruption Cripple the Sputtering US War Machine?
China tightens its grip on materials necessary for US military and its proxies as Washington turns to those who squandered American advantages to fix the problem — or profit from it.
Read more...Data Centers Highlight the Limits of Renewable Energy Scaling
Data centers are an obstacle that torpedoes the whole idea of a transition offensive against hydrocarbons.
Read more...America’s Shaman-Poets’ Vision for a Better Future
Author and Jungian analyst Steven Herrmann discusses the concept of “spiritual democracy” as explored in the writings of American poets like Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson.
Read more...The Stupid Price Gouging Discourse
Is Kamala’s price gouging proposal is a ruse, and why won’t she voice support for Lina Khan at the Federal Trade Commission?
Read more...How Responsible Is the Rental Housing Cartel for the Explosion in Homelessness?
Since collusion in pricing and vacancy hit critical mass in 2016, homelessness has soared.
Read more...Tyson Foods Is Being Investigated by the USDA
Investigation follows Tyson Foods’ recent closure of nine meatpacking plants across the country, allegations not only violated an agreement to sell the plants to a competitor but conspired to suppress that competition.
Read more...Lina Khan’s FTC Gears Up to Go After Algorithmic Black Boxes Governing Workers’ Lives, but It Might Be Running Out of Time
A closer look at “algorithmic wage discrimination” used at gig companies (and increasingly across all industries), one potential tool to stop it, and how the FTC is zeroing in on the practice.
Read more...Where’s the Death Data on Heat, Wildfire Smoke, and Other Climate Extremes?
Knowing the true human toll resulting from soaring temperatures might help jolt the nation into action on climate change sooner and lessen the mitigation and resilience we will need.
Read more...A National Cartel Fixing Rental Housing Prices: The Scandal Continues to Grow
The company at the heart of the rapacious conspiracy finally makes a statement following FBI raid in Atlanta and increasingly incriminating and devastating details.
Read more...Carbon Capture Will Extend Oil Production by 84 Years, Industry Study Finds
A Canadian oil field that should have shut down in 2016 can now keep producing oil until 2100.
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