With the reported support of Biden, will Congress ban mandatory arbitration clauses in common consumer and employment contracts?
Monday, November 17, 2025
Sanders ‘Confident’ $15 Minimum Wage Possible Through Senate Reconciliation
“Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour is not incidental to the federal budget and is permissible under the rules,” Senator Bernie Sanders says.
Hubert Horan: The Airline Industry Collapse Part 6 – U.S. Airlines Lost Over $35 Billion in 2020
The airline biz is on track to being America’s biggest welfare queen.
Google’s Dominance of Online Ads is a Big Deal. Here’s How to Fix It.
Legal scholar Dina Srinivasan talks to INET’s Lynn Parramore about reining in Google and restoring fairness to a regulatory Wild West.
Plastics Watch: Annie’s Homegrown Vows to Eliminate Ortho-Phthalates from Its Mac and Cheese
Annie’s Homegrown ventures where FDA has feared to tread and vowed to eliminate phthalates from its macaroni and cheese.
Feds OK’d Export of Millions of N95 Masks as U.S. Workers Cried for More
Despite a national shortage of N95 masks, the U.S. government quietly granted an exception to its export ban on protective gear.
Republicans Offer Preview of Brutal Climate Policies in Texas
Some Republicans are not letting the crisis in Texas go to waste.
Artificial Intelligence Could Mean Large Increases in Prosperity—But Only for a Privileged Few
Labor-saving advances in artificial intelligence may undo the gains from globalization and pose new challenges for economic development
2:00PM Water Cooler 2/19/2021
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Hoist on His Own Petard? Kentucky Attorney General’s Apparent Plan to Settle Landmark Pension Case Mayberry v. KKR Likely to be Undermined by Discovery
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron may have outfoxed himself by joining a landmark case against grifting private equity moneybags.
Cold Truth: The Texas Freeze is a Catastrophe of the Free Market
Yves here. The collateral damage of the Texas power grid power failures is getting worse and worse. Extensive burst pipes now mean that 14 million (no typo) are without potable water. From the Wall Street Journal: More than 14 million people in Texas are without safe drinking water, as the fallout of a severe winter […]
