What Happens When Progressives Tacitly Accept Reactionary and Authoritarian Identity Politics
Progressives sat back when some clearly dodgy social change programs were being implemented, handing the right some easy wins.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
The Obama Presidential ‘Library’
Obama has an edifice complex! Who’d have thunk it?
Read more...James Galbraith: The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022 – A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
Galbraith explains why conventional views of inflation are a particularly poor fit for recent price increases and produced bad policy
Read more...How Corporations Hope to Eviscerate Workers’ Right to Strike
A suit by Glacier Northwest, seeking to recover costs it incurred during a strike, is now before the Supreme Court.
Read more...US Inflation Policies Slowing World Economy
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...How the Left Should Exercise Power Once They Have It
Another episode in the long-running soap opera, “Can the Left Be Saved?”
Read more...“Yes, Britain Is Corrupt. But It’s a Lot Worse Than You Think”
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...AI = BS
Don’t. Don’t. Don’t believe the hype.
Read more...Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson Discuss the Causes and Politicization of Inflation
Desai and Hudson debunk widely-believed, finance-and-elite-serving myths about inflation.
Read more...The Post-Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?
Continuing shocks to the economy threaten the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility
Read more...Healthcare Systems Increasingly Turn to Gig Nurses to Remedy Their Self-Created Nurse “Shortages”
Private equity uses the pandemic to pursue the “Uberfication” of nursing.
Read more...Davos Elite Won’t Tackle Climate Crisis and Global Inequalities
Quelle surprise! Change on crucial issues of climate and inequality is unlikely to emerge from the World Economic Forum.
Read more...Google’s Stock Climbed After It Fired 12,000 Employees—But What Did They Get Out of It?
Tech companeis laying off tens of thousands of employees, underscoring their fixation on short-term performance metrics.
Read more...Monopsony in Professional Labor Markets: Hospital System Concentration and Nurse Wage Growth
elle surprise! “Growing consolidation in localized hospital markets appears to restrict nurse wage growth.”
Read more...Here is the Truth: Medicare Advantage Is Neither Medicare Nor an Advantage
“Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I should know. I helped to sell it.”
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