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Alternatives for Autos?
The Auto Crisis: Placing Our Own Alternative on the Table Sam Gindin Deep economic crises violently interrupt daily lives and force more radical responses onto the public agenda. In the case of the No… more →
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Alternatives for Autos?
Travis Fast wrote 8 months ago: The Auto Crisis: Placing Our Own Alternative on the Table Sam Gindin Deep economic crises violently … more →
New unemployment numbers: carnage continues
Travis Fast wrote 9 months ago: The StatsCan release is here. All in all a fairly brutal LFS. Ontario continues to get hammered suf … more →
The fatal flaw at the heart of the neoliberal growth model:update
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Travis Fast wrote 1 year ago: REPRINT: Given where we are now I thought this might be worth a reread. It was written last march of … more →
Labour Market Slack and Stagnation
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Travis Fast wrote 1 year ago: Overview of Labour Market Trends. Part One: Labour Market Slack and Economic Stagnation By Travis Fa … more →
Union vs. Union Capital: Teachers' Collision Course with Big Job Cuts
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thelonelyeconomist wrote 2 years ago: The $35+ billion bid for BCE resulted in Teachers’ pension fund securing a majority stake in t … more →
So what is up with France?
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Travis Fast wrote 2 years ago: Travis Fast In response to the question: “is France a lagging indicator?” If you actuall … more →
Should Women Pay Less Tax?
thelonelyeconomist wrote 2 years ago: Economists are always thinking, and nothing gets those brains churning like tax incentives.* Alesina … more →
CN profit drops, but don't worry about that trusty dividend
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thelonelyeconomist wrote 2 years ago: CN announced today that their profit dropped 10% last quarter, down to a disappointing $324 million. … more →
CN Workers on Strike
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Travis Fast wrote 2 years ago: Just a couple of quick and dirty facts about the financial health of CN. According to the Report on … more →
US Manufacturing and Labour income shares of value added
Travis Fast wrote 2 years ago: Travis Fast Over at Relentlessly Progressive Economics (no-affiliation) Erin Weir has commented on t … more →
When the business lobby (and their economists) do and do not embrace the law of supply and demand
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Travis Fast wrote 2 years ago: Travis Fast British Columbia and now Alberta have removed restrictions on the employment of teenager … more →
The Heritage Foundation and Karl Marx
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Travis Fast wrote 2 years ago: Travis Fast UPDATE: We should note that since the publication of this article the Heritage Foundatio … more →
Wage Repression
Travis Fast wrote 2 years ago: Travis Fast Following the Lonely Economist’s nice little quick and dirty break down of CN prof … more →
Part 1: the declining share of a hard day's work; a note on the dynamics neoliberal income distribution
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Travis Fast wrote 2 years ago: Travis Fast Thanks to the Lonely Economist for kicking off the discussion here at Relentlessly Progr … more →
Statistics Canada: Employment is up. Oh, but the jobs suck
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thelonelyeconomist wrote 2 years ago: Last Friday, Statistics Canada released it’s monthly employment figures. This is the monthly e … more →
Explaining Unemployment: Natural Accelerating Rate of Employment Destruction (NARED *tm)
Travis Fast wrote 1 year ago: Travis Fast In the great labour market policy debate of the mid to late 1990s no end of explanations … more →
Givebacks and Handouts are not a Viable Model for the Big Three, Unions or Government
Travis Fast wrote 1 year ago: Travis Fast The leadership at the CAW can call it whatever it wants but it already has a name and it … more →
The shocking truth about an IMF working paper: Labour market mobility in Canada
Travis Fast wrote 1 year ago: Travis Fast Some mornings I wake up hoping that my capacity to predict the “robust” find … more →
Income Distribution and the CN Strike
thelonelyeconomist wrote 2 years ago: In an earlier post, Travis showed that labour is receiving a decreasing share of income in Canada. L … more →
