War on Cash: NYC Enforces its Cashless Business Ban
NYC sides with those who want to use cash and enforces its cashless business ban, hitting ice cream shop Van Leeuwen with $12000 in fines.
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Bob Pollin: Stop Subsidizing Wall St., Start Subsidizing Workers for High Energy Costs
Bob Pollin: High oil prices and supply chain disruption are driving inflation, not workers’ modest wage increases or government debt.
Read more...“Democrats Introduce Plan To Fix Social Security, The Way We Fixed the Cat”
Here we go again….another Democrat scheme to gut Social Security.
Read more...“Want to See a Modern Country Commit Suicide? Take a Hard Look at Britain”
Post Brexit Britain is not doing at all well, and things are not going to take a turn any time soon.
Read more...New York City Retirees Refusing to Eat the Medicare Advantage Dogfood
Savvy New York City retirees have worked out that Medicare Advantage sucks.
Read more...John Deere Strike: A Union Member Explains How Bad Faith Dealings Produced Today’s Grievances
A backgrounder from TroyIA, a Naked Capitalism reader and John Deere worker, on what drove union members to strike.
Read more...Spike in Energy Prices Suggests That Sharp Changes Are Ahead
Gail Tverberg expands her focus beyond energy to provide an analysis of what is going terribly wrong in the world economy
Read more...The John Deere Strike: Organized Labor’s Turning Point?
Will the Deere strike become a watershed event, a PATCO in reverse?
Read more...Insurance Focused on Virtual Visits? The Pros and Cons of a New Twist in Health Plans
The pandemic has made patients more comfortable with telemedicine for doctor visits. Insurers are betting that some patients will now embrace new types of health coverage that encourages video visits — or outright insists on them.
Read more...Wolf Richter: The Amazing Explosion of New Businesses Continues as Americans Strike Out on their Own
Including Wolf’s 2 cents about the high “failure rates” of new businesses, being a small-business owner himself.
Read more...Why Record Numbers of Workers Are Quitting and Striking
Workers are getting uppity. What is surprising is that it took so long.
Read more...Central Asia’s Neoliberal Tragedy
How the post-USSR neoliberal land grab played out in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Needless to say, not pretty.
Read more...10,000 John Deere Workers Reject Contract, Strike 14 Plants
A round-up on the John Deere strike: The contract dispute, and the correlation of forces between labor and management.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Super Imperialism, 3rd Edition
Michael Hudson’s Super Imperialism strikes again!
Read more...The Supply Chain Crisis: How We Got Here
On some of the key management practices and fads that produced dependence on extended and revealed-to-be-fragile supply chains.
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