When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
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Grapes of Wrath, Indeed.
In last week’s New York Times Magazine, columnist Chuck Klosterman (“The Ethicist”) answered a reader question that started out
Can't take the Reds out of the Red Line
This picture is from the Red Line (one of the lines in the Boston area subway system, known as the
Homelessness Marathon, this Sunday, 10am-5pm
We received this email from our friend Jeremy Alderson, founder and host of an excellent annual radio program, the Homelessness
Screenings of Co-op documentary Shift Change; misc.
(1) Shiftchange: Via our former book editor, Dan Fireside (now at Equal Exchange) and others, a new documentary about worker-
Problems with the D&S Blog--Fixed!
[Update--I restored the missing blog posts! Original posts start tomorrow, I promise! --Chris Sturr] Dear D&S blog
Repost: Two Nice Items on Romney on “the 47%”
Item 1: Hat-tip to Peter W.: From the blog Squashed, a great riposte to Romney’s claim that if
Repost: New Co-editor! plus: Palast Excerpt!
(1) New Co-Editor! First things first: Dollars & Sense has a new co-editor! Or to be precise, our
Repost: Mitt’s Tax Havens; Ferguson and Zakaria
(1) The Gospel of Supply Side Jesus: Hat-tip to our cartoonist Barry Deutsch for sending me a link to
Repost: Assange, Ryan, Eurozone, etc.
(1) Lindsay Lohan and the Tsunami: D&S collective member Bryan Snyder begged me to use Linday Lohan’s
Repost: Libor, Swaps, and the Inherently Political Nature of Interest Rates
A guest post from Darwin BondGraham, author of our May/June 2012 cover article on interest-rate swaps. There’s
Repost: Olympics, Swaps, Obits, etc.
(1) The Olympics: Today’s image (above) is from a series of pre-Olympics billboard hijackings that a guerrilla group
Repost: Hall of Shame for Tax Dodgers
by Sandra Korn [Orignally posted July 24, 2012]Two bits of news yesterday, sent to us by Alejandro Reuss: first,