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...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
Ron Wyden Calls NAFTA Insufficient Now; In 1993, He Called It a “Vote For Less Pollution”
One of the common rhetorical tropes supporters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have used to sell it is to declaim all prior trade agreements as inferior, relative to this bright, shiny and new deal. Ron Wyden, the Democrat in Congress most responsible for moving TPP through, gave a particularly juicy example of this yesterday.
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...Give the Democratic Trade Turncoats Hell Over Fast Track Vote
The real fight against Fast Track authorization will take place in the House. but the Senate sellouts should be made to feel the wrath of their constituents.
Read more...Wolf Richter: How Soaring Housing Costs Impoverish a Whole Generation and Maul the Real Economy
Housing costs are beyond the reach of many middle class earners. And while that is no news, housing has been the engine of past recoveries. So inflated home prices are part of why the economy will stay mired in low growth.
Read more...Ilargi: Will Austerity Be the Straw that Breaks the EU AND the UK?
Cameron thinks he’s riding a major victory, and he will now be called upon to deliver on his election promises, which just so happen to include a deepening and acceleration of austerity measures.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Sanders Raises $3 Million in Four Days; Will He Split the Party?
Why Bernie Sanders is a real contender, and how his campaign threatens Democratic party apparatchiks.
Read more...TPP: The “Fascism” Issue
Will the TPP, as some critics have charged, pave the way to fascism?
Read more...The Persecution and Assassination of the People of Greece as Performed by the Inmates of the Troika, Under the Direction of the Eurogroup
A new paper shreds the myths that justified the misguided application of austerity and wage-rate reduction policies in Greece and the Eurozone.
Read more...After Shocking Fundraising Totals, Bernie Sanders Defends European-Style Socialism
Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid is already creating more of a stir than expected. He is not just running against Clinton. He’s targeting an entire system.
Read more...Ilargi: Sucking Spoilt Milk From A Bloated Dead Sow
Ilargi describes why the US is not a democracy, it is not the supreme leader of the world, and the American economy is not in recovery.
Read more...Ridiculing Concerns About TPP Tyranny
Yes, Virginia, the TPP is at least as bad as its critics say it is.
Read more...Why Syriza Failed
Syriza has failed because it does not believe in governing along the lines of what it promised unless it is easy to do so.
Read more...The 23 Count Indictment of the TPP
This post will serve to remind you: call your Representative (contact info here) and Senators (contact info here) today and tell them in no uncertain terms that you expect them to vote against Fast Track authority.
Read more...Quantitative Easing and The Great Recession: Who Wins? Who Loses?
The Federal Reserve (“the Fed”), the central bank of the United States, is at the center of a big political fight, once again.
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