Latest Economy

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  Bond: State of the BRICS Class Struggle, Part 2

  ‘Social Dialogue’ Reform Frustrations
• Davanellos: A necktie for Tsipras and a noose for workers

  The “sacrifices” required will be increasingly barbaric, and the results will be even more uncertain than compared to the first Memorandum — which promised an end to the crisis in...2012
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  Bond: State of the BRICS class struggle

  Repression, Austerity and Worker Militancy
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  Baker: Corporations, Media Trumpet “Horrors” of Higher Wages

  It’s clear that many in the media are terrified by the prospect that as the labor market gets tighter, workers might get a larger share of the pie
• Menon: National (In)Security

  In the United States of Inequality
• Murphy: The real driver of health care spending

  An inefficiency gap is boosting costs — and profits
• Hudson: Black Americans’ Median Wealth Could Disappear

  Today’s rising housing prices exacerbate the racial wealth gap in the US by making it more difficult for Black people to accumulate wealth since the 2008 recession, thus further decimating Black wealth
• Pizzigati: A Sweet New Century for America’s Most Privileged

  America’s elected leaders haven’t ignored inequality since 2000. They’ve made it spectacularly worse
• Henderson: Why Are Poor Whites More Depressed and Pessimistic?

  The message many poor whites are receiving is that if you’re poor, you’re a loser and a parasite
• Lawrence: We need total media reform

  We can either realise a world where technology serves the many, or settle for one in which data oligarchs rule unchecked
• Guerrero: Free trade is toxic

  Hostile trade wars and American protectionism will double down on the damage done by decades of US-driven global free trade policies
• Gerard: Sending Worker Stand-Ins to Spread Propaganda

  Though membership had been declining for decades, unions added 262,000 members last year. And now they’ve got the support of 61 percent of Americans, up from a low of 48 percent in 2009
• Levitz: New Study Confirms American Workers Getting Ripped Off

  The report lays waste to the idea that the plight of the American worker can be chalked up to impersonal economic forces, instead of concrete political decisions
• Epstein: Goodbye Regulations, Hello Impending Global Financial Crisis

  As long as we have capitalism, we are going to have financial crises
• Dolack: World Bank solution for lack of jobs: Cut worker protections

  What we have here are code words meaning make it easier to fire people
• Zhang: The next step for cooperatives is certification

  Cooperatives have so much potential to sustainably lift people out of poverty
• Pizzigati: ‘Janus’ Will Juice Income Inequality in America

  Any court ruling that limits how effectively unions can bargain on behalf of workers, even mainstream economists now recognize, concentrates wealth at our economic summit
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  Hartung: Trump’s “Infrastructure” Plan

  Pump Up the Pentagon
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  Dimaggio: Union End Times

  The Supreme Court’s Fatal Attack on Public-Sector Workers
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  Chomsky: The Anatomy of Trumpocracy

  Interview on Trumpocracy, the future of American politics and the Bernie Sanders phenomenon