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Study: Obama’s reelection drives racist tweet increase from south
Study: Obama’s reelection drives racist tweet increase from south (via Raw Story ) A study of hate speech on Twitter in the week surrounding President Barack Obama’s reelection this week conclud… more →
Democracy Under Attack By Zillionaires
Global Power Project, Part 1: Exposing the Transnational Capitalist Class
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wrote 6 days ago: Global Power Project, Part 1: Exposing the Transnational Capitalist Class By: Andrew Gavin Marshall … more →
World Of Work 2013 Report: U.S. Inequality Now Literally Off The Chart And Rising
wrote 1 week ago: Oldspeak: “This new chart from the ILO’s latest World of Work report doesn’t have enough room … more →
I Am A Pope Fan - Down With Plutonomy, Blame It On Bernanke
wrote 3 weeks ago: Pope Francis on Wednesday urged political leaders to make every effort to create jobs and said unemp … more →
Mothers Day, Mother Earth
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wrote 1 month ago: Spare a thought for Mother Earth this Mothers Day. It is not just the Dow that hit a historic milest … more →
The Archbishop and The Pope Speaks - Wealth Redistribution Ahead
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wrote 1 month ago: Since time immemorial, we always had politics mixed up with religion. That stands to reason given th … more →
Bankers + Tax Havens = Lower wages, benefits and pensions
wrote 2 months ago: This video clip of the ‘looting of America’ exposes the same type of looting that is occ … more →
Ad Hoc Commentary - beware: the list of the global rich is now leaked
wrote 2 months ago: The attack on offshore financial centers continues: “…An anonymous whistleblower sent to … more →
Ad Hoc Commentary - the lows in yields on UST 10y in 2012 is likely the multi-decade lows
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wrote 3 months ago: ‘Gentlemen prefer bonds’ – Andrew Mellon The whole generation of gentlemen in fixe … more →
Graph of the 2nd American Revolution
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wrote 3 months ago: from David Ruccio As Dylan Matthews explains, Until the 1970s, the bottom 90 percent had actually se … more →
US wages and productivity 1968 – 2012 (minimum, average and The 1%)
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wrote 3 months ago: from David Ruccio Here, according to David Cooper, is what the federal minimum wage in the United St … more →
Banks Are Too Big to Jail, We're Too Small to Bail
wrote 4 months ago: In Highgate Cemetery, Karl Marx is spinning in his grave so vigorously that his corpse could power h … more →
Income redistribution in the United States 1913-2011 (2 graphs)
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wrote 4 months ago: from David Ruccio source The Great Recession in the United States only depressed top income shares t … more →
Fix the Debt and a Wall Street Sales Tax
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wrote 4 months ago: from Dean Baker At this point everyone knows about Fix the Debt. It is a collection of corporate CEO … more →
Starting A Chinese New Year Part 1 - Confessions & Doubts
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wrote 4 months ago: Chinese Year of the Snake starts on the same day as the most auspicious day of the Hindu religious f … more →
Plutonomy memos
wrote 4 months ago: The word “plutonomy” was coined by Ajay Kapur, a global strategist at Citigroup, in 2005 … more →
Score card: 16% vs. 288%
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wrote 4 months ago: From Edward Fullbrook David Ruccio‘s post yesterday on the 34-year (and still continuing) per … more →
Up, up, and away (the 1% and .1% in the USA)
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wrote 4 months ago: from David Ruccio Just as we expected: the incomes of those at the very top have rebounded in dramat … more →
Aaron Swartz, financial fraud, and the Justice Department
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wrote 4 months ago: from Dean Baker Many people have been asking about the Justice Department’s priorities in the wake o … more →
Taking notes 10: Plutonomy and the precariat
wrote 4 months ago: by Noam Chomsky The Occupy movement has been an extremely exciting development. Unprecedented, in fa … more →
