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Bill Black: Is Politico or Third Way More Divorced from Reality?
The Third Way confirms that the Dems care more about beating back the Sanders/pro middle class faction than winning.
Read more...Violence and the State: A Prelude
Our new normal of destabilization.
Read more...Where Have All the Workers Gone: Opioids and US Labor Force Participation
Increase in opioids prescriptions in the US possibly has significant impact on labor force participation rates for both men and women.
Read more...Brexit Makes Labour Exploitation More Likely in the UK
Negotiations on a future Brexit deal have barely started, yet EU workers across the UK are already finding themselves more vulnerable.
Read more...Nomi Prins: A Decade of G7 Central Bank Collusion – and Counting..
Why central bank snake oil and financier-favoring interventions have done great harm to ordinary people.
Read more...Opioid Overdoses Increase When Unemployment Rises
NBER paper links increase in unemployment to trebling in opioid deaths and increased emergency room visits over the 1999-2014 period.
Read more...Dean Baker: Social Security A Success Story- Can It Withstand Privatization Attacks?
Dean Baker discusses the push toward privatization of Social Security just after the system celebrates its 82nd birthday.
Read more...Data Scientist Cathy O’Neil: “Algorithms Are Opinions Embedded in Code”
On the real and present dangers of rule by algorithm, or as Lambert has called it, “code as law”.
Read more...Another Way the Rich Preserve Their Advantage: Grade Inflation in Private Schools
Private school grade inflation is a small but nevertheless telling factor in how class mobility has fallen in the US.
Read more...Debunking the Myth of “Free Speech”
Contrary to widespread misperceptions, we’ve never had free speech in America, and there are good reasons why not.
Read more...School Funding Fight in Illinois: Billionaire Ex-Private Equity Governor Rauner v. 2 Million Students
Yves here. Notice how all the hysteria over evil Rooskies, North Korea, and neo-Nazis on the march has diverted media attention away from fights over economic issues? In Illinois, Governor Rauner is pushing through a scheme to curb funding to schools that is designed to hit lower property tax districts and Chicago particularly hard. Some […]
Read more...Why Public Company Ownership Is Irrelevant to Monopolies
Why the argument that public company ownership contributes to monopoly power is wrong-headed.
Read more...The Case Against a Consumption Tax
Why a consumption tax does not hold up under close scrutiny.
Read more...“The Changing of the Guard:” The Prescient 1980 Book That Foretold the Democrat Love Affair With Neoliberalism
How up and coming Democrats in the 1970s and 1980s decided being wannabe Republicans was a path to power.
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