Wall Street Bonuses For Haiti
Share this postThe president is going to announce today a tax on the big banks and financial institutions: The tax on banks, insurance companies and brokerages with more than $50 billion in assets...
View ArticleClass Warfare and Korea “Free Trade”: An Open Letter to UAW, My Union
Share this postSo-called “free trade” is part of the relentless class warfare under way in America. And the so-called “free trade” deal with South Korea is no exception. That said, a lot of the shallow...
View ArticleWhy We Need A Job Party–Today’s Jobs Figures
Share this post It is still very grim out there for those people who want decent paying work. Not just a job–but a job that pays a fair wage. Today’s numbers make even more clear–we need a Job Party....
View ArticleFootball On The Brink
Share this postI’ve been following this from a far–not because I like the sport (I don’t)–but it is a fight that is a tough one for the workers. At the brink of an all-out labor war Thursday, the NFL...
View ArticleThe Filthy Rich Shout “Greed Is Good” and Party With The Politicians
Share this postWhen I wrote the “The Audacity of Greed” in 2008, I had a chapter called “Vodka and Penises” which detailed a rather unique birthday party thrown in Sardinia, Italy, in 2000 by Tyko CEO...
View ArticleA Civil War: We’re Eating Each Other For the Crumbs
Share this postIn a crisis, it’s a tough thing to watch people scramble to survive. And those that already have a lot usually are in the driver’s seat, ready to pit one person against the other. The...
View ArticleMissing it Again on the Minimum Wage
Share this postSee, this is a good example of how the conventional wisdom we hear day after day warps the brain. More people are, in fact, being pushed into minimum wage jobs: The number of workers in...
View ArticleThe Missing 3 Million
Share this postI remain in the camp of people who are entirely unimpressed by the economic figures raved about by most pundits, economists and The White House. We all know that pay is not growing. But,...
View ArticlePost-Euphoria: SCOTUS Gears Up To Destroy Unions
Share this postI’ve kind of laughed at the analysis percolating around that, oh, surprise, the Supreme Court is a liberal bastion…or not so conservative. Well, it was a great day when marriage equality...
View ArticleWal-Mart Killed At Least 400,000 Jobs In A Dozen Years, While The Waltons Got...
Share this postIf you want to know why a political revolution is necessary (and why the status quo’s most intellectually fraudulent campaign in recent Democratic primaries is such a threat to working...
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