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Economists Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy recently discussed the relationship between the various economicclasses, neoliberalism and the still tepid reindustrialization efforts seen in the West: The...

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Need a job? Lack a soul?

Accretive Health has a position for you. The New York Times reports: Hospital patients waiting in the emergency room or convalescing after surgery could find themselves confronted by an unexpected...

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Damn….

Wednesday was a very bad day for Mary Tolan and the company she runs, Accretive Health. Not only had the State of Minnesota taken action against Accretive Health, but: Shares of Accretive Health...

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Reaching out and touching some people

Jesse Russell of the Workers Independent News service asks (h/t Corey Robin): “Is your lunch break your own or does the boss get to tell you what you can and can’t do during it?” AT&T has an answer...

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The new austerity

Congressional Republicans have been working hard to cut SNAP funding (Food Stamps). As we know, Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan has worked very hard on this matter, having made his name...

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China — a labor cost savings bonanza?

Not really, according to Yves Smith: For some time, we’ve argued that outsourcing and offshoring were overdone. For manufactured goods, direct factory labor is typically only 10% to 15% of final...

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Oh nooooooooo

Hostess Brands, the makers of Wonder Bread, Twinkies and Ding Dongs intends to go out of business because of a recent labor strike. Hostess expected its Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain...

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Good question

Michael Hudson asks: This pro-austerity mythology [which animates orthodox economics and economic policy in the United States and elsewhere] aims to distract the public from asking why peacetime...

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Recommended: Michael Hudson: America’s Deceptive 2012 Fiscal Cliff, Part II

Wage Slavery plus debt peonage — these are the fates awaiting the ‘better off’ members of the 99%, Alan Simpson’s “lesser people.” The ‘worst off’ shall continue to find themselves existing on city...

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Let us keep to the path to nowhere

Perhaps the Demonicans would rather have a plutonium coin…

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Solidarity during the austere age

Aditya Chakrabortty, writing for the Guardian, considered Sweden’s recent and surprising troubles: More than 20 cars torched in one night. School classrooms gutted by fire. Fifty far-right extremists...

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On the forgetting of our human nature

Wendell Berry once wrote: We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its...

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Word

This has been said before, many times, in fact, but Zach Ward-Perkins and Joe Earle say it again because economists and their paymasters cannot learn from their past mistakes: Every year thousands of...

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Getting what you vote for

Politics Does it matter that many can’t register for coverage? Related articles Effort to Repeal Obamacare is Nearly Dead (politicalwire.com) Obamacare Proves the Virtues of Federalism...

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Socialism: Converting Hysterical Misery into Ordinary Unhappiness for a...

Reblogged from Corey Robin: In yesterday's New York Times, Robert Pear reports on a little known fact about Obamacare: the insurance packages available on the federal exchange have very high...

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Robert Polin on minimum wage increases

Lost jobs because of modest — and thus inadequate — minimum wage increases? Not according to Robert Polin: Filed under: Recommended, Video Tagged: Austerity Politics, Barack Obama, Class Conflict,...

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Hate, and its antidote

A few decades ago an elderly Jewish friend and I walked down a spacious avenue located in a multi-ethnic Brooklyn neighborhood. We passed a Hasidic Synagogue as we neared out destination. I never...

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