Richard Eskow: Inequality interferes with economic growth, robs people of opportunity (and with it, hope), dooms millions to poverty or near-impoverished conditions, and offends that part of the human spirit that constantly searches for fairness and equality.
Economic Theorists: High Priests of Capitalism
Richard Wolff: Capitalists’ incomes and wealth are determined by their particular, unique and superior contributions to production. In mainstream economic theory, capitalists are not just ripping off their employees.
Uncovered California: What’s Holding Back Nurse Practitioners?
Debra A. Varnado: Allowing Nurse Practitioners to have full practice authority could help meet the demand for primary care services under the newly enacted Affordable Care Act and Covered California.
Brexit and the Derivatives Time Bomb
Ellen Brown: Brexit could trigger a $500 trillion derivatives meltdown, by forcing the EU to allow insolvent member governments and banks to write down debt. Italy is in financial crisis and is already petitioning for that concession. How to avoid collapse of the massive derivatives house of cards? Alternatives are considered.
Tony Blair Mourns Brexit
RJ Eskow: Although Tony Blair laments the failure of the “political center,” this didn’t happen because he and his colleagues failed. It happened because they succeeded.
Affordable Housing: Unsexy but Righteous
Hannah Petrie: Affordable housing is so unsexy there isn’t even a catchy phrase for what I’m trying to describe, but here’s an attempt: Land development for affordable housing. Too bad I can’t throw a bikini on that.
America’s Future Depends on Containing Neoliberalism
Frank Fear: Neoliberalism is so pervasive that prominent interpretations of what it means “to be a good leader,” “to exercise good leadership,” and “to be a success” are defined in neoliberal terms.
Clinton on the Economy; Trump Ever Offensive
Robert Borosage: The Sanders critique of Clinton still holds. The actual programs are less bold than the goals. The public investment agenda is grander in rhetoric than in financial commitment.
Brexited: Now What?
Larry Wines: Now that Brexit has happened, it’s definitely scaring the hell out of the banksters on both sides of the Atlantic. By Tuesday, we’ll know to what extent that applies to Japan and China, as well.
13 Democrats Just Did Wall Street’s Dirty Work
Richard Eskow: As members of the House Financial Services Committee, the “Hedge Fund 13″ all voted for a Wall Street-backed bill with an Orwellian name: the “Investment Advisers Modernization Act.”
Wall Street Tax Breaks Make the Super-Rich Super-Richer
Judith Lewis Mernit: The Congressional Budget Office estimates that taxing carried interest at ordinary rates would net $18 billion over 10 years.
Blame Ronnie for Homelessness
Randy Shaw: Reagan’s drastic housing cuts in 1981 turned a worsening urban affordability crisis into the nation’s worst mass homelessness since the Great Depression.
Would You Trust Henry Kissinger with Your Social Security?
Richard Eskow: It’s true that he’s popular among media and political elites, but that sad fact only serves to remind us that some memories are short – and that, for some people, the ties of social status outweigh those of morality and decency.
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