…profits (purple line) jointly trended higher as a share of national income while gross employee compensation declined (blue line). It’s the business employees that are the real losers in this…

…of the GOP — or maybe make that chopped losers. Actually, making a living wage is exactly a central part of the American dream, and while a wage of $10…

…medication, I’ll note a Yahoo Finance article published this weekend that actually did identify some losers. I’ll ignore the fact that the article’s title, “Obamacare hurt these people the most,”…

…and expenditures for public welfare (i.e. the losers and chiselers) are slashed. The first principle of political economy is that the scope of democracy depends on the range of views…

…war progressives defeated Joe Lieberman in the primary. But because Connecticut has no “sore loser” law preventing primary losers from re-filing and running as independents in the general election, Lieberman…

…certainly possible, as Russia, Iran, and ISIS are among the biggest losers. But – and somebody really needs to explain this to the Village Idiot over at Daily Kos –…

@sandymaxey points me to a new report from the North Carolina Justice Center that is making my head spin. Picking Losers shows that the state’s flagship development program, the Job…

…of those who want to be polite losers or believe that “well, they’re saying the right things now” is redemptive and not damning— who of the Sensible Technocrats is worth…

…talk in coded racial language about ‘free stuff,’ about ‘takers’ and ‘losers.’ And boy, are they quick to demonize President Obama. This kind of talk has no place in our…

…that economists should “move beyond the (generally correct) observation” that “if a policy decision leads to aggregate gains, losers can in principle be compensated.” This is not a “generally correct”…