An Economic Policy Institute study shows that the dramatic increase in CEO compensation has a large impact on increasing inequality. Absent the explosive rise in CEO compensation, worker pay could have doubled.
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Read more...Bill Black presents evidence the system is corrupt and rigged against ordinary people – a sentiment with which a new poll shows many agree.
Read more...Judge issues $572 million verdict in J&J opioids trial. Some settlements of multiple pending lawsuits will likely follow.
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Read more...Why the US and China are likely to remain at loggerheads.
Read more...The odd marriage of Lega Nord and Five Star held up longer than expected, but Italy is about to get a new government. How might that work out?
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Read more...Trump’s tariff strategy is obviously incoherent, but other approaches like anti-trust to improve the US trade’s position are sorely wanting.
Read more...38 manufacturing industries continue to decline and nine of 10 of these industries are the critical industries that are fundamental to the manufacturing process
Read more...Offshoring killed American manufacturing jobs.
Read more...The student debt crisis has produced a decline in homeownership, marriage, and childbearing rates among the young.
Read more...Why a widely-held view about productivity that is foundational to the claim that people are paid what they deserve does not hold up to scrutiny.
Read more...The two Bretton Woods institutions the have huge credibility deficits due to the policy conditionalities and advice they have dispensed to developing countries in recent decades.
Read more...The government says it’s preparing for a Brexit crash out. But ten years of spending cuts have made the people of Britain intensely vulnerable to economic shock.
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