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Economy

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Groups Hold Week of Action for Better Wages, and More
Last year, median CEO pay jumped to $10.5 million dollars - an increase of about 13 percent. However, most workers didn't see their paychecks go up by a single …

University of Maine Faculty Reinstated After Students Protest Against Cuts
USM Assistant Professor Meghan Brodie and USM student Meaghan LaSala discuss how this victory marks the beginning of a push to look to other efficient ways to fill the …

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American Democracy No Longer Works
The bottom line here is that the elites are getting what they want, while the rest of us aren't, because money has taken over our political process.

The Global Banking Game Is Rigged, and the FDIC Is Suing
Taxpayers are paying billions for a swindle pulled off by the world's biggest banks, and the FDIC is now suing over it.

Was Marx Right?
Yves Smith: As income disparity has widened enormously and class mobility has eroded, Marx's idea of class warfare seems particularly apt.

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US Blasted on Failure to Ratify IMF Reforms
The Obama administration has been criticized for not pressing Congress for ratification with sufficient urgency.

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Why No Sustained Protests (Yet)?
Lingering effects of the organized post-1945 destruction of the New Deal coalition helps explain continuing austerity and other anti-democratic policies pursued by US governments, says economist Richard Wolff

A Better Yardstick for Measuring Inequality
If we measure inequality with a yardstick that only wonks can decipher, weu2019ll end up with a society too confused to do anything meaningful about it.

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Rigging the Electoral System for the Rich
Americans believe, correctly, that the system is rigged for the rich.

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Corporate Comics
A humorous look at the auto industry.