Credentialism and Corruption: The Opioid Epidemic and “the Looting Professional Class”
The professional classes as a transmission vector in the opioid epidemic.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
How MBA Programs Drive Inequality
How MBA programs reinforced the inequality-promoting neoliberal economic model.
Read more...The UK Vote to Leave European Union
A judicious, high level overview of the Brexit vote and its implications, the big one being that it moves Britain to the right.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Lanches Campaign Against the TPP
Elizabeth Warren takes on a new target and goes against Clinton on the TPP.
Read more...Bill Black: BREXIT – Tony Blair
Tony Blair sides with the bankers and against the popular will. Quelle surprise!
Read more...Nassim Nicholas Taleb: How to Own a Slave
In what ways has the employer-employee relationship come to resemble slavery?
Read more...Puerto Rico ‘Rescue’ Bill to Reinforce Colonial Relationship with US
Not surprisingly. Puerto Rico is about to get a big dose of austerity…..which Latvia-style, will push more people with skills to leave.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Opens Broad Attack Against Rent-Seeking Oligopolists Like Amazon, Apple, Google, Walmart, Comcast
Curiously, Elizabeth Warren is taking aim at powerful interests that are deeply loyal to Hillary Clinton. The plot thickens.
Read more...Bill Black: The Terrible Cost to Democrats and Our Nation of Ignoring Tom Frank’s Warnings
A high level description of how Democrats and Labor sold out the working class, and how that served a narrow interests at great cost.
Read more...How Brexit Threatens to Turn the UK Into “Borisland”
How the Tories and UKIP intend to use Brexit to impose permanent austerity and reduce workers’ rights.
Read more...Satyajit Das: What If Anything Does Brexit Really Signify?
An appraisal of the Brexit sound and fury.
Read more...Boris “Just Kidding” Johnson Outlines His Rainbows and Unicorns Brexit Plan
Boris Johnson is now the most hated person in the Western world.
Read more...MIchael Hudson: The Slow Crash
Michael Hudson discusses some of his favorite themes; debt deflation, the high cost of consumer debt, negative interest rates.
Read more...Brexit: The Crisis Begins
The Brexit vote was a stunning repudiation of neoliberalism and austerity. But what comes next?
Read more...IMF Warns That Inequality, Poverty, Low Productivity Growth, Falling Workforce Participation Will Drag on US Growth
The IMF has become an unlikely reporter of unpleasant realities about the US economy, particularly the costs of inequality and distress. If only its prescriptions were better….
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