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This is mostly incorrect: Greed has taken away capital by stock manipulation (Bain Capital) and improper bonuses for workers at…
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Cyrille's initial "First Notes" at ET seem consistent with reviews by others.  (I did read Galbraith's review and the tone…
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They don't need to do anything until there is competition from the left.  Like that's going to happen anytime soon.…
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SFGate: Minimum wage debate goes local. Finally, as the economy has changed, so have the demographics of low-wage workers. According…
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Important people like Krugman may have been ignoring capital, but some nobodies weren't.  From 2011 Derivatives, Counterparties, It's been a…
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Add in that many of those events perceived as improbable occur not infrequently and go unnoticed for a variety of…
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First, a majority of Democrats today differ from Republicans on the so-called major non-economic, social issues.  Second, they accept neo-liberal…
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Sort of wanted to focus on Clinton and the minimum wage in this diary/thread.  Although it should be mentioned that…
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Merely pointing out that COLA is a blunt instrument -- with modern computers we can do ever so much better…
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Should have acted on increasing the minimum wage and not acted on Wall St. deregulation and a few other neo-liberal…
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This wasn't a discussion about charter schools.  I offered evidence for my statement that public schools (charters paid for with…
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All are worthy of consideration -- but could be problematical in application.   Had that 1968 minimum wage risen with…
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The opposite is equally true: Insincerity flows from no real stake in generating emphatically negative outcomes. No need for "anti-rebels"…
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That's why it's interesting to see him back off from rabid support of Bundy.
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A reason why Beck might be seeking some distance from Bundy (ya know just in case things violent) Bundy has…
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The Cliven Bundy Bible Publisher NCCS began life as the Freemen Institute, a vehicle for the far-right, Mormon, anti-commie, history…
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In fact, Soviet power was largely based on whatever the fuck the western MIC and politicians decided it need to…
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Do you really think that HRC isn't going to campaign on her record of accomplishment, which is considerable,... Care to…
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Above all, it echoed the brooding anti-modernism and civilizational despair of Henry Adams, to whom, fittingly, Kennan likened himself in…
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If at this point the FEC disappeared would anyone notice? Interesting that Beck has gone CYA on the Bundy issue…
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