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Blackstone’s Tony James Touting What Looks Like Clinton’s Scheme to Gut Social Security
Hillary and Blackstone CEO Tony James are too adept to label these required savings accounts as a stealth replacement for Social Security.
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Corporations in Politics Are Like a Tractor-Trailer Drifting Into Your Lane
Corporations are now in our elections and they're empowered to claim religious exemptions from democratically-enacted laws.
Neoliberalism’s Decades-Long Attack on Public Universities
Neoliberals have turned our universities into corporations and students into consumers.
Ecuador’s Legal Battle With Chevron Foreshadows Global Corporate Coup D’état
Agreements like the TPP allow corporations to turn the world's natural resources into profit at any human cost.
Our Giant Experiment With “Greed Is Good” Has Failed
when President Ronald Reagan and his free-market cronies came to town in the 1980s, something changed in US corporate culture.
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Trump, Clinton and the Illusion of Everlasting US Hegemony
Both Trump and Clinton believe US hegemony should be an everlasting reality. We need to change the conversation.
Class War by Other Means: Tennessee, Volkswagen and the Future of Labor
Massive subsidies are just the price that the public is expected to pay in exchange for jobs made available to them within the “free enterprise” system.
Economic Update: Higher Ed Class Struggles
This episode discusses top corporate leaders and top government officials as tight partners, British wages and Brexit, and Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs Is Acknowledging Climate Change. Why Isn’t the GOP?
As a whole, the Republican Party remains a den of denialism.
The Tax Evasion Double Standard: How US CEOs Are Withholding Revenue
We just need to rein in companies that act like paying taxes is a negotiation.