Jared Holst: The Criminal Value Chain
Police reform schemes avoid addressing the causes of criminal activity, most of all poverty. But that would mean giving nice things to people
Read more...Police reform schemes avoid addressing the causes of criminal activity, most of all poverty. But that would mean giving nice things to people
Read more...The Federal government’s unheard of profits on defaulted student loans confirms that the scheme is predatory. And defaults are set to rise.
Read more...Why are you paying so much for everything? DOJ admits that decades-old carveout allowed even non concentrated industries to effectively build cartels to coordinate prices and wages
Read more...Tipping legalizes subminimum wages and keeps workers subservient to the whims of employers and customers.
Read more...The point of the debt ceiling melodrama is to give fiscal hawks another whack at budget-cutting. Tax increase are therefore off the table.
Read more...Progressives sat back when some clearly dodgy social change programs were being implemented, handing the right some easy wins.
Read more...Obama has an edifice complex! Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...Galbraith explains why conventional views of inflation are a particularly poor fit for recent price increases and produced bad policy
Read more...A suit by Glacier Northwest, seeking to recover costs it incurred during a strike, is now before the Supreme Court.
Read more...The Fed is playing killer of the current inflation even though it isn’t set up to do so. That’s hurting a lot of innocent bystanders.
Read more...Another episode in the long-running soap opera, “Can the Left Be Saved?”
Read more...The press talked up the UK’s drop in the Corruption Perception Index. But the UK has long been an engine of corrupt conduct around the world.
Read more...Don’t. Don’t. Don’t believe the hype.
Read more...Desai and Hudson debunk widely-believed, finance-and-elite-serving myths about inflation.
Read more...Continuing shocks to the economy threaten the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility
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