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How Wall Street Takeover of Rental Market Is Fueling the Homelessness Crisis

New lawsuits allege mega landlords are colluding to keep rents high and units vacant while also embracing surveillance tech to evict tenants.

This entry was posted in ECONNED, Hedge funds, Legal, Market inefficiencies, Private equity, Real estate, Social policy, Social values, Surveillance state on January 8, 2023 by Conor Gallagher.

Nepo Babies and the Myth of the Meritocracy

Meritocracy has become an empty idea in America. That’s a problem.

This entry was posted in Banana republic, Guest Post, Income disparity, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class on January 7, 2023 by Yves Smith.

Zelensky’s Bloody War Against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

A bloody attack on a Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest, close to the Orthodox Christmas, in a church….and sanctioned by the government.

This entry was posted in Doomsday scenarios, Media watch, Politics, Russia, Social policy, Social values on January 6, 2023 by Yves Smith.

The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: Where Do We Stand and Where Should We Go Regarding Social and Biomedical Responses to Pandemic?

As Covid vaccines underperform and for some groups, present risks, an article in a prominent metical ethics journal calls for mandates to end.

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Science and the scientific method, Social policy, Social values on January 4, 2023 by Yves Smith.

List Processing: Why We Never Have to Read End-of-Year Lists Again (But Why not Make Some?)

A close reading of “End of Year” lists.

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, Social values on January 1, 2023 by Lambert Strether.

Wives Listen but Husbands Don’t

There are significant gender differences in how economic information diffuses within the household.

This entry was posted in Social policy, The dismal science on January 1, 2023 by Lambert Strether.

Twitter and the CIA (Twitter Files 8–10)

Yves here. The Twitter Files disclosures continue at an impressive clip, increasingly focusing on the close involvement of Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies in curtailing and blocking Administration/Democrat-threatening lines of thought, such as interest in the Hunter Biden laptop or hostility to vaccine mandates. These revelations are as significant as the Pentagon Papers, yet […]

This entry was posted in Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Social policy on December 29, 2022 by Yves Smith.

Thomas Frank on How the Feckless Democrats Trashed the American Middle Class

How Democrats abandoned populist economic ideas and whether there is a future for progressivism.

Cal Grad Student Worker Strike Ends With Deal Panned by Many Rank-and-File Union Members

One dissenting student negotiator said the tentative agreement “does not come close to our initial demands and it leaves a lot of our co-workers still rent burdened, still impoverished.”