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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On Its 80th Birthday, Securing Social Security
Today is the 80th anniversary of Social Security; here's our book reviewer Steve Pressman's review of
Links: SEC and CEOs, Greece, Mexico, Trump, Salaita
(1) Greece: In addition to the great video by Alicé Anil embedded above (well worth watching; includes clips with Krugman,
Links on Cops, Wage Stagnation, Phil Gramm, etc.
(1) Cops: I just posted Kristian Williams' article in our current issue, Poverty Crime, Privileged Crime: Policing and Economic
Report from Greece, plus more links on Greece
(1) When Greece Bailed Out Germany: Via Portside, the image above was the "poster of the week" recently
A Report from Iran
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain had a great piece in The Intercept, Iranians’ View of the Nuclear Deal: Optimistic, With
Latest Greece Links
Greek referendum 2015: demonstration for voting NO at Syntagma square, Athens Greece. Wikimedia Commons, author Ggia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share
New Issue!
Our July/August issue is out! We have posted two articles: our cover feature, an interview with Gerald Epstein of
Report from Greece; Links on Greece
Links to good pieces on tomorrow's Yes/No referendum in Greece: * Yanis Varoufakis (Greece's finance minister)
Thursday Links: "Fix Our T," SEC, TPP, etc.
(1) Fix "Our" T: On my walk from Boston's South Station to the D&S
Two Illinois Victories
Last month (in this post) I blogged about Doug Henwood's great interview with Jane McAlevey and her comments
New Issue!
New issue! Our May/June 2015 issue is out (for electronic subscribers; print subscribers will get their copies in about
Monday Links: Rihanna, Baltimore, Jean Tirole, Private Equity
(1) Rihanna, American Oxygen. The video for this song from mega-pop-star Rihanna's new album R8 is