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Slow collapse of the wage system is the underlying cause

…getting screwed by the financiers we’re now forced to rescue. Since the 1970s, American workers have become more productive without getting paid for those increases in productivity. And it was…

Hubbard’s New Nonsense

…deflation first) which is real money for most of us, but that ignores one detail: most of us are concerned that Hubbard’s buddies have so screwed things up that job…

What was it about 1995 and the US Federal Reserve?

…(Ben Bernanke in 2005) [1] What (Really) Happened in 1995? How the Greenspan Fed Screwed Up in the Mid-90s and set the stage for the Greatest Financial Bubble in the…

Taxes and cuts

screwed, thank you, bye.” I can’t help but think of comparing Walter Mondale to Ray Patterson here. Twenty-four years after his abysmal failure in the 1984 presidential election, Mondale could…

Working class

…carried out in secrecy. Often, the ordinary employees potentially getting screwed out of their pensions have no idea what’s going on — and the bosses and their bottom-feeding consultant aparatchiks…

Serco is the new auditor for Iraq

…easily run out of control. “If Lockheed says, ‘Oops! We screwed up on the F-22! We need more money,’ then Congress complies,’” Wheeler said. Oversight from Congress itself has played…

Ain’t been no progressiveness since 1980

…for attention. In 2005, the year the top is or is not getting screwed (I think the numbers show they are not) we collectively only paid 12.45% of our income…