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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A Tale of Two Polls
Poll: Nearly half hearing too much about Obama Wed Aug 6, 10:47 AM ET WASHINGTON - Barack Obama may be
Companies Tap Pension Plans To Fund Executive Benefits
Excellent reporting on the front page of today's WSJ: Companies Tap Pension Plans To Fund Executive Benefits Little-
The Banks and Private Equity
A good editorial from today's New York Times, cautioning against private equity firms' efforts to get the
The Doha Round: A Bad Deal All Round
An opinion piece in today's Guardian by Tim Wise (former D&S editor, now of the Global
More on the "Fire Industrial Comlex"
Another report on the high cost of private contractors fighting fires, often saving rich people's homes, with public
Forest Fires, Privatization, Prison Labor
The business program Marketplace, from American Public Radio, whose economic coverage usually leans pro-business (or cheerily "neutral,"
How hospitals are killing E.R. patients.
This is from Joel A. Harrison, author of our recent feature, Paying More, Getting Less, which provides a novel argument
What free markets?
Our July/August issue is (finally) going to press; here is the Editors' Note for the issue: The government&
Federal government trails 23 states on minimum wage
The latest Economic Snapshot from the Economic Policy Institute: The second part of a multi-stage hike in the federal
We're not keeping up
This is from our pal J-P Ferguson: There's a good story by Louis Uchitelle, one of the
IMF = Death
A new study in the journal PLoS of Medicine by Cambridge researcher David Stuckler reports that the rise in rates
Companies Get $100 Million In SBA Contracts They Don't Deserve
According to the Washington Post, a new GAO report identifies over $100 million in Small Business Administration contracts that have