Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rupert Neate reports on new research showing that the world’s billionaires saw their wealth increase by 20% in 2017 alone. – Pete Evans…
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Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Campbell Robb laments the persistence of in-work poverty in the UK – though it’s of course worth noting the reality that poverty…
Wednesday Morning Links
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 the rich and attacks on…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Thom Hartmann writes about the billionaire-funded push toward outright fascism in the U.S. as a response to the growth of the middle class…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jennifer Pagliaro and David Rider report on Toronto’s longstanding internal knowledge of the costs of austerity. And Ed Conway highlights a new…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rupert Neate reports on the latest Credit Suisse study showing that wealth continues to concentrate in the hands of a few ultra-rich individuals.…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Don Pittis writes that the disastrous results of the U.S.’ giveaways to corporations and wealthy individuals – including a ballooning deficit which…
Sunday Morning Links
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 climate breakdown. Josh Gabbatiss discusses…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Simon Wren-Lewis notes the importance of including the working class among the groups identified as part of a progressive movement. And Gary Younge…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Bob Lord discusses how the concentration of wealth in the U.S. has pushed beyond even the obscene levels of the Gilded Age.…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Yutaka Dirks reviews Lars Osberg’s The Age of Increasing Inequality, with a particular focus on how matters have been getting worse in recent…
Friday Morning Links
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 facing Western Canada among so…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Judy Paul discusses how everybody benefits from the fight against inequality: Also of interest is the levels of trust and community life were…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Laurie MacFarlane writes that flows of income and wealth have everything to do with bargaining power and social decision-making, rather than productivity…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Lana Payne offers a reminder (with reference to Lars Osberg’s new book) that extreme and growing inequality is a choice rather than…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Oliver Milman reports on new indications that we’re far beyond any reasonable pace in trying to rein in climate change. – The Star’s…
Sunday Afternoon Links
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 and environmentally sustainable. And Sharon…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Bandy Lee discusses the need to treat inequality as a social disease which calls for immediate treatment: Residents of countries with higher income…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Sam Pizzigati discusses the predictable social consequences of allowing inequality to grow: What sort of unintended consequences ? The British epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Robert Skidelsky warns that having failed to learn crucial lessons from a 2008 economic crash caused by a reckless financial sector exploiting…