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Economy
How Gender Changes Piketty’s “Capital in the Twenty-First Century“
Women have a lot to gain from an economy that rewards individuals based on what they do with their life, not who they marry or who their parents are.
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The Class War Goes Retail
Why does Wall Street tank on news portending economic gains for most Americans?
Economic Update: From Bad Loans to Taxing the Property of the Wealthy
Updates on the Pentagon's overpayments; mortgages tilting toward the rich; the subprime car loan bubble; and silence about intangible property tax.
Don’t Be Fooled: Banks Still Too Big to Fail
The immediate takeaway by many in the media, government and investment community was that the need for a taxpayer subsidy like the bailouts of 2008 may have declined or …
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Detroit Activists Herald Partial Victory as City Regains Control of the Water
On July 28, Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr issued an order transferring control of the department back to the city of Detroit and recently elected Mayor Mike Duggan.
The Minimum Wage and Inflation
Would an increase of the minimum wage be inflationary? Would more inflation than we have now be a good or bad thing?
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We’re Being Robbed Every Time We Fly
We shouldn't have to feel like weu2019re being robbed every time we fly home to see family members or jet off for vacations.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Americans Are Drowning in Debt, and More
Americans are drowning in debt, and more.
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Want To Take Back Chicago? Here’s How, Say Activists
Our city is sold piece-by-piece to private interests.
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Taking a Bite Out of Overtime Abuse
Like other chronic overtime abusers, such as lucrative television production companies and Verizon with its fat franchise agreements, UPS does it because it can.