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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Oil-Palm Plantations on Afro-Colombian Lands
We received the following letter from the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia, in response to our article on the devastating effects of the expanding palm oil industry on Afro-Colombian communities of the Pacific coast (Blood on the Palms, July/August 2007). The author of the article, David Bacon, thou
ICE to Freeze Bank Profits?
In the face of the subprime mortgage crisis, it turns out that making home loans to undocumented immigrants might be
The Fed and America's Distorted Expansion
[seealso id="1"] The U.S. economy has been in expansion mode since November 2001. Though of reasonable
Inequality Worsens Across Asia, Wall Street Journal Cheers
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The Dull Compulsion of the Economic (#11)
A series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. With all the turmoil on the markets
The Dull Compulsion of the Economic (#10)
A series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. The Nobel Prize in economics was awarded
The Dull Compulsion of the Economic (#9)
A series of blog entries by D&S collective member Larry Peterson. A couple of weeks ago I went