This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tom Kibasi writes that the UK’s best option in light of its impending Brexit is to develop
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Guardian’s editorial board writes that stagnating and even declining life expectancies and nother indications of declining
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: 12 Years Left and Over $200B to Fund
We have less than 12 years left to kick the oil bums out. The oil bums have left us with hundreds of billions of dollars
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Ontario Premier Doug Ford was elected earlier this year and already started implementing his plan to increase inequality in the province. Obviously, this is a
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – David Moscrop discusses the need for a more meaningful definition of “progress” which doesn’t hand-wave away the long-term
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Barry Ritholtz comments on Donald Trump’s choice to model his budgetary policy on the combination of freebies for
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This and that for your weekend reading. – Kate Aronoff interviews Mariana Mazzucato about The Value of Everything, including some important discussion about the relationship
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – David Wallace-Wells writes that even “genocide” may be too gentle a word for the consequences of a
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Matt Taibbi interviews Bernie Sanders about the concentration of wealth in a few large financial institutions –
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Assorted content to end your week. – Nicholas Shaxson writes that the UK’s disproportionate dependence on the financial sector is akin to the resource curse
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Laurie MacFarlane writes that flows of income and wealth have everything to do with bargaining power and
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Patrick Kingsley points out how children are feeling the effects of the UK’s austerity, including by being
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Ann Pettifor discusses the need for a Green New Deal to build an economy that’s both socially
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bandy Lee discusses the need to treat inequality as a social disease which calls for immediate treatment: Residents
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Emily Atkin offers a reminder that the people with the least stand to face the most severe
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tracy Smith-Carrier comments on the importance of addressing poverty as an issue of human rights rather than charity:
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: The Notwithstanding Clause: A Gift from Doug Ford to Jason Kenney
Sometimes silence speaks louder than words. Last week Doug Ford went straight to the nuclear option when a judge told him no Doug, you can’t
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Matt Phillips and Karl Russell write that the next severe financial meltdown may not be far away,
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul Krugman discusses how Republican obstruction undermined both the shape and size of the U.S.’ efforts to recover
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Paul Krugman offers a reminder that the great global policy failure following the 2008 finance-driven crisis was
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