The just-started fight over how and how much to pay for houses destroyed or damaged in the extensive and still-burning Los Angeles foreshadows yet another ratchet down in living standards for Americans. The notion that it is economically and politically...
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Conor here: Richard Murphy highlights a problem governments across much of the world are struggling with. And much like in the UK, there’s little talk about reducing inequality or moving away from growth-at-all-costs and environmental-destruction model but instead more squeezing...
Yves here. This story gives a window into what is coming en masse in the US in the not-too-distant future: a deluge of older Americans turfed out of housing due to rising rents versus limited assets and pension payments. And...
Yves here. Below we have embedded a presentation by a long-standing friend of the site on CalPERS and foreclosure fraud topics, Michael Cohen, a California attorney specializing in insurance. His guide for burned or partly-burned out Los Angeles fire victims...
A reader sends me a missive with this line, and (among others) a picture of manufacturing employment. I reproduce (on an annual basis) this series back to 1960 in the figure below. Employment in manufacturing did take a plunge in...
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Outgoing President Joe Biden used his farewell speech to offer warnings about an American oligarchy taking over the country. He spent about half a century in public office serving the oligarchs and helping them tighten control over the country, but...
Conor here: It seems to me that the author of the following piece only scratches the surface of how Lynch’s films dealt with the forces that dominate our lives, which are more systemic than the product of the bad apples...
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