Latest Economy

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  Chomsky: Ireland has robbed poor working people of tens of trillions of dollars

  Interview on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the morality of Ireland’s tax regime and whether the human race can avoid the twin catastrophes of global warming and nuclear war
• Hartmann: Wall Street’s Barons are Causing Homelessness: Can We Stop Them?

  We’re seeing tent cities & massive homelessness in cities across America because a handful of Wall Street billionaires want to make a killing: Will America remove housing from their clutches?
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  Baker: The Preventable Horrors of the Pandemic and the Short Case for Open Research

  By allowing the pandemic to spread largely unchecked in the developing world, we gave it the opportunity to mutate into more vaccine-resistant forms that will continue to reverberate in the months and years to come
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  Sanders: Biden’s $3.5T plan to help working families depends on Democratic unity

  It is no great surprise that not a single Republican in Congress supports this bill
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  Chomsky: The GOP Is a “Gang of Radical Sadists”

  Noam Chomsky notes, there is plenty of room for despair in America right now. But he insists that, despite it all, we have ample reason for hope
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  Pitt: Progressive Dems Offer Simple, Brilliant Path Forward for Build Back Better Act

  Enter the Congressional Progressive Caucus with a wondrously simple solution: Chop the thing in half
• Moody: Why It’s High Time to Move on From ‘Just-in-Time’ Supply Chains

  Decades of deregulation, privatisation and market worship have left society vulnerable to the unbidden force of “just-in-time” supply chains
• Johnson: Progressives Push Democrats to Reject ‘Outdated Austerity Policies,’ Pass Bold Agenda

  "The Dems must stand with the people, not fold," said Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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  Fang: Drug Industry Hires Former Critics as Lobbyists Against Medicare Negotiations

  Former Democratic lawmakers now earn a living as drug company lobbyists
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  Rasmus: Addendum to ‘The Great Strike of 2021’

  How Workers Survive When Not Returning to Work
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  Chomsky: Are We Witnessing the Demise of Neoliberalism?

  The neoliberal model has been highly successful in achieving its most basic aim, which is to shower ever-greater advantages on the already over-privileged
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  Monbiot: Fire Front

  Destroying the world’s living systems and draining its wealth are not perversions of capitalism. They are capitalism
• Zhang: Restaurant, Hospitality Workers Quit in Droves in August as COVID Surged

  While conservatives circulate spurious talking points about people not wanting to work, they are fighting tooth and nail against Democratic proposals that could save or create jobs
• Bacher: Governor Asks Urban Users to Reduce Water Use As Nut Growers Suck Up Water

  “These industrial nut farms—more than 2 million acres of them—are getting enough water during the drought to produce a near-record crop, mostly for export.” 
• Menand: It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”

  From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong
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  Bond: The latest Bretton Woods bean-counting scandal nearly evicts IMF director Georgieva

  “Torture the data until they confess” (or until you’re busted), economists profess
• Katzin: Turning Away from Fossil Fuels

  Lessons from the Anti-Apartheid Movement
• Dolack: China’s winding road toward capitalism

  A look at The Communist Road to Capitalism: How Unrest and Containment Have Pushed China’s (R)evolution since 1949, by Ralf Ruckus
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  Rasmus: The Great Strike of 2021

  We are witnessing the ‘Great Strike of 2021’ and it’s composed mostly of millions low paid non-unionized workers
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  Nolan: In Middle America, Unions and Democrats Are Sleepwalking Into the Grave

  By not organizing in decimated post-industrial towns, we’re ceding ground to the right wing