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Economy
Austerity, US Style, Exposed
Republicans and Democrats concur on austerity and differ only on its secondary details.
The Real “Recovery”: Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control
Welcome to the “economic recovery,” where the big banks and corporations that created the global economic crisis are doing better than ever before.
Financialization and Unemployment
Whether the power of finance can be brought under more control becomes one of the significant issues, together with other structural and political causes of unemployment under capitalism, when …
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Solve the Real Problems – Poverty Retirement and Health Insecurity – and the Economy Will Recover
Imagine the impact on the economy of 55 million seniors receiving an additional $1,200 each month.
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Silver Linings in the 2012 Union Membership Figures?
Will Obama act? Time is running out for both the president and unions.
Financial Regulation and Cost Benefit Analysis for Whom?
Gerald Eptsein: Bloomberg News calls for a cost benefit analysis of financial regulations, but the question is, cost benefit for whom?
The American Lockdown State
The US has become a nation not of laws but of legal memos, not of legality but of legalisms.
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Does American Exceptionalism Foster American Decline?
The chauvinistic definition of exceptionalism has become common in the rhetoric of politicians.
“Shift Change”: Creating Economic Democracy Through Workplace Cooperatives
Worker cooperatives are living laboratories of democracy, and democracy is contagious.
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A Technological Drive Toward Driverless Cars
Robots built by robots are changing the entire relationship between capital and labor.