A Naked Capitalism Win: No More Poop in the Loop
How a reader documenting a horse dump problem in Chicago’s Loop led to a clean-up.
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Everything You Thought You Knew About Western Civilization Is Wrong: A Review of Michael Hudson’s New Book, And Forgive Them Their Debts
Why debt unforgiveness is the original and incurable curse on our post-eighth-century-B.C. Western Civilization,
Read more...Raising Minimum Wages Reduces Recidivism
Another benefit of higher minimum wages.
Read more...The Super Rich Get Even Richer
The continuing rise in wealth of the super rich bodes ill for financial and social stability.
Read more...Erasing Economics and Economic Policy from Politics: The Race and Xenophobia Sideshow
More and more economic studies find that inequality hurts growth. Adolph Reed discusses why politicians focus on divisive messaging rather than broad-based economic policies.
Read more...Big Money—Not Political Tribalism—Drives US Elections
Conventional wisdom asserts that American politics is becoming more and more tribal. But the chiefs of the tribes share a lot in common: dependence on big money.
Read more...Quick Thoughts on the Google Walkout
What the Google walkout says about the company’s management and the Silicon Valley view of employee rights.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Pathology, Khashoggi, Capitalism & Climate Change
Does capitalism breed pathology?
Read more...Can Politics Ever Be Compassionate?
Why the time is overdue to have politics give much higher priority to reducing suffering.
Read more...A Follow-Up on the Reasons for Prime Age Labor Force Non-Participation
Some surprising findings on why labor force participation of prime age men is flagging.
Read more...Buried in “Hilariously Stupid” White House Attack on Socialism, An Accidentally Strong Argument for Medicare for All
Amid hysterical comparisons between Senator Bernie Sanders and Mao Zedong, the Council of Economic Advisers unwittingly makes a solid case for socialist policies.
Read more...Can Americans Learn to Scale Their Partisan Walls?
Connecting across differences may be the only thing that will save Americans from rule by the privileged few.
Read more...Why Are We Mostly Ignoring the Climate Crisis? The Message Is Wrong
Why is there so little urgency about combatting climate change? What can be done to reverse that?
Read more...#MeToo Under the Golden Arches at McDonald’s
#MeToo on Capitol Hill, and #MeToo at McDonald’s
Read more...How to Destroy Neoliberalism: Kill ‘Homo Economicus’
contemporary American business and economic culture has a moral framework: neoliberalism. This framework is dependably orthogonal to the last 50,000 years of moral norms and traditions.
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