Economy

Some of the best “Muck Reads” we read this week.

The experience of debt can guide us toward different ways of living - like having extended generations share a household - that are both cheaper and more fulfilling.

Wage growth has been more rapid for production workers than their supervisors.

The denial of fundamental economic principles is setting the world up for another Great Crash.

Updates on vaccine price gouging; Canadian corporate misdeeds; Massachusetts nurses fighting inequality; Denmark's greater equality; and Argentina as a hedge fund hostage.

Despite all the progress made in the past fifty years since the Civil Rights Act, we still have a very long way to go.

The switch to finance is a switch in terms of where profits are being obtained and, along with the profits, very high salaries.

The neoliberal remedy: Ice cream sandwiches and circuses on steroids, located, as ever, in a billion-dollar stadium smack in the middle of a teeming slum.

The Supreme Court virtually eliminated the President's power to make recess appointments, and more.

Joblessness is down because new jobs are being created, but lots of new jobs don't pay enough to support a small family.