Affordable Housing Crisis Grows Across the Country as Apartment Rents Skyrocket
An update on where and how tenants are being squeezed by rising rents versus stagnant to low wage growth.
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How Institutional Conflicts of Interest Exacerbate the Anechoic Effect – the Example of ASCO Fearing “Biting the Hand that Feeds You”
Ancien regime levels of corruption wherever you look.
Read more...Detroit: A Case Study of Oligarchs and Vigilantes Taking Over Public Safety in a Big City
In Detroit, safety is a privilege enjoyed by the white and wealthy.
Read more...Who was Alexander Hamilton? Militarism, High Finance and Checking the Democracy.
Alexander Hamilton, often held up by liberals as the most admirable Founding Father, was not the man you probably thought he was.
Read more...The Bankruptcy of America’s Elites
Why America’s elites have failed.
Read more...The Decline and Fall of American Public Space as Shown in #BlackLivesMatter Tweets
Looking at the backgrounds of #BlackLivesMatter images shows America’s decaying infrastructure.
Read more...Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Rollout Speech: The S.S. Clinton Sails From Roosevelt Island in New York Harbor
A close reading of Clinton’s speech, comparing it to FDR’s “Four Freedoms” speech (sadly, to Clinton’s disadvantage).
Read more...David Leonhardt Links Two-Parent Families to Low Social Mobility, Without Taking Race and Socio-Economic Status Into Account
Leonhardt reinforces the myth that family form causes low social mobility, a disservice to the real debate about what causes family change
Read more...Memo to Readers: If You Want to Beat Big Finance, You Need to Be Able to Take the Fight to Their Terrain
We are now 35 years into a finance-led counterrevolution. If you care about income inequality, student loan debt slavery, foreclosure abuses, and other products of the success of this effort, it behooves you, as Sun Tzu urged, to understand your enemy.
Read more...The Shafting, Um, Sharing Economy
The Wall Street Journal, of all places, describes the dark economic underbelly of Uber and other Orwellianly-named “sharing” services.
Read more...The Happiness Industry: How Government and Big Businesses Manipulate Your Moods For Profit
How efforts to motivate and instill loyalty among workers and citizens by trying to mass produce happiness have backfired.
Read more...“The Art of the Gouge”: NYU as a Model for Predatory Higher Education
A group of 400 NYU faculty members documents how the school fleeces students to pay for gold-plated administrator pay and perks.
Read more...Satyajit Das: The Power of Money
A new series of books on money gives an intriguing historical overview and winds up highlighting money as a implement of power relations.
Read more...Senate Democrats Work with Republicans to Throw Medicare Under the Bus as Part of TPP Fast Track Sausage-Making
TAA, a training program for workers displaced by TPP, would be funded by money diverted from Medicare. It doesn’t work, either.
Read more...Bill Black: New Labour Leaders Want to Go Back to Blair’s Policies That Blew Up the UK
How Tony Blair sold deregulation, and why his bad prescription is so hard to kill.
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