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Drowning in Profits: A Private Equity Firm, a Missing Pool Fence and the Price of a Child’s Death
The most controversial development in America's housing
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Dean Baker | The Sharing Economy and the Mystery of the Mystery of Inequality
In a country where rules are enforced or not enforced to benefit the rich and screw the middle class, you will have increasing inequality and a middle class that …
Leveling the Playing Field for Worker Cooperatives
Municipal and state governments as well as NGOs that support small or independent businesses are finally beginning to address what changes they need to make to support the creation …
The World Cup and “Brazil’s Dance With the Devil”
Just a year ago, there were mass protests in Brazil - on one day alone, more than a million demonstrators hit the streets - speaking out against the billions …
United Methodists Divest from Company Involved in Israeli Occupation
Amid concerns raised by church justice advocates, United Methodist Church Pensions sells all stocks in G4S.
That Much Petroleum is That Much Bullshit: China Won the Oil War, and the Shale Oil Revolution is About to Shrivel Up
Wall Street is the government, and the New York Times is right across town. Maybe that's all you need to know to understand what's happened.
Bill Moyers: Too Big to Fail and Getting Bigger
In Washington, DC, a bipartisan effort is underway to chip away at the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which is supposed to prevent the type of economic meltdown that …
Robert Johnson: Has Capitalism Lost the Ability to Reform Itself?
Capitalism is not rebalancing; the yearnings and desires of large portions of society are not being responded to.
A World Cup for Corporations
The countryu2019s rage over the astronomical amount of money that is being pocketed by corporations has inspired thousands to organize themselves in the streets.
Dead Economic Dogmas Trump Recovery: The Continuing Crisis in the Eurozone Periphery
In the EU, policymakers have raised hypocrisy to an even higher level.