Why Stopping Tax “Reform” Won’t Stop Inequality
Inequality isn’t driven by taxes—it’s driven by the power of capital in relation to workers.
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Gaius Publius: What Would Happen if Sanders Ran for President in 2020?
Speculating on Sanders 2020…
Read more...Pharma Impunity and the Opioids Crisis
Legal liability and opioids crisis: Why do the big fish always seem to get away? Will state lawsuits make a difference?
Read more...Corporatizatizing The All-Administrative University
How parasitic administrators are ruining university education.
Read more...The Crisis Ahead: The U.S. Is No Country for Older Men and Women
Yves here. I imagine many readers are acutely aware of the problems outlined in this article, if not beset by them already. By any rational standard, I should move now to a much cheaper country that will have me. I know individuals who live most of the year in third-world and near-third world countries, but […]
Read more...Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Eleven: Annual Uber Losses Now Approaching $5 Billion
Uber’s ever-widening losses confirms Hubert Horan’s thesis that Uber has no credible path to profit absent a radical downsizing.
Read more...Benign Effects of Automation: New Evidence from Patent Texts
A new study on automation suggests that even if the robots are coming for your job, they create even more jobs.
Read more...Republicans Plan to Cut Food Stamps as Homelessness Rises in the US
Republicans want to take food out of children’s (and adults’) mouths by cutting food stamps. One likely result is an increase in homelessness.
Read more...Eastern Europe Showed How Neoliberalism Produces Reactionary Populism, Like Trump
Trump’s antecedents in Eastern Europe show how widening inequality and failed economic promises pave the way for reactionary politics.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Deficit Talk Is a Trap. Will Democrats Fall Into It?
The Democrats would join the Republicans in using deficits to justify cutting Medicare, Social Security, and other services. Don’t let them.
Read more...Will Ketchup Again Count as a Vegetable? USDA Delays School Lunch Rules
USDA delays compliance with some school lunch rules. Other steps needed to reduce food waste and provide healthier options.
Read more...GOP Tax Bill is Even Worse Than We Think
There’s ugly, and then there’s the GOP’s tax bill.
Read more...The Republican Tax Plan
Economists discuss the Republican tax proposals and for the most part, find a lot not to like.
Read more...Judge Slams Uber for Withholding, Possibly Destroying Evidence in Waymo Trial; May Undermine Uber in Other Litigation
Uber is in serious hot water in the Waymo trial. If Uber did try pulling a fast one on the court, the blowback could extend to other cases.
Read more...Tech Giants Look to WTO to Entrench Their Monopoly Powers and Profits
How tech titans are using the WTO and trade agreements to further strengthen their dominant positions.
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