Thursday, August 24, 2017

Economics and Corruption related links 082417




How the Stock Market Will Cripple Donald Trump: Rather than continually take credit for the so-called “Trump Bump,” the president should be thanking Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve. But, in the end, the market is likely to be part of his ultimate undoing.


 

Why 'America First' really means America last


 

The Business Links of Those Leading Trump’s Rollbacks


 

Can This Muslim Community Create a Model for Rebuilding Detroit?  Dream of Detroit is uniting Muslims across race and background to rebuild one of the city’s long-neglected neighborhoods.


 

Raising the Minimum Wage Is Not the End Goal—We Need to Challenge Capital Itself


 

The First Priority for the Resurgent U.S. Socialist Movement? Single-Payer Healthcare: At DSA’s overflowing national convention, socialized medicine was front and center.


 

Repulsed by Pharma-Bro Martin Shkreli? Maybe You Also Hate Capitalism.  Far from being some kind of moral outlier, the pharma-bro embodies all of our economic system’s defining characteristics.


 

Transnational Corporations, Factory Farms and the Economic Colonization of Rural America


 

In a rebuke to the GOP, a federal judge orders orders the government to pay Moline Health $52 million in Obamacare funds


 

He lacked experience, left the application mostly blank but got a $110,000 state job


 

West Virginia Gov. Justice Asks Trump for $4.5 Billion to Save Eastern Coal: Miners in western states says proposal goes against free market principles


 

‘Muslim Ban’ Conspiracy Theories: Trump’s Business Dealings & IMF/Rothschild Central Bank


 

Understanding Republican Cruelty


 

Lewis Black - Capitalism Greed Bankers and Bernie Madoff (Live in Amsterdam)


 

What Republicans don’t want you to know


 

Taibbi: Is LIBOR, Benchmark for Trillions of Dollars in Transactions, a Lie?  While nuke kooks rage, British regulators reveal rip in financial space-time continuum and $350 trillion headache


 

Corporations pay between 13 and 19 percent in federal taxes—far less than the 35 percent statutory tax rate


 

Another fiduciary rule delay would cost retirement savers $10.9 billion over 30 years


 

Comment to the U.S. Department of Labor opposing the rescission of the Persuader Rule


 

Federal Deregulation: Panelists shared their experiences and said they have suffered due to federal deregulation, or the lack of appropriate government regulations


 

Consumer Federation of America


 

Murphy Oil may be the last workers’ rights case the Supreme Court has the opportunity to consider


 

Wages for workers with a high school degree or less rose the fastest over the last year


 

Agricultural guestworkers: The challenge of the expanding H-2A program            


 

You're not imagining it: the rich really are hoarding economic growth


 

Donald Trump Is The Fast-Food President: The Trump administration is taking the reins off low-wage employers. It’s a stark reversal from the Obama years.


 

Trump Should Stop Bragging About Obama’s Jobs Numbers


 

Does Cash Aid Help The Poor — Or Encourage Laziness?


 

Trump Chips Away at Postcrisis Wall Street Rules: Plan to restrict bonuses has been dropped, and some limits on banks’ trading are under review


 

Trump aides predicting 'brutal' September: Aides hope to use meetings in New York this week to figure out their plans for the debt ceiling, 2018 budget, tax reform, infrastructure spending and perhaps another stab at repealing Obamacare.


 

Think Obamacare repeal was hard? Wait for tax reform: Five reasons why President Donald Trump's top priority will be a bear to get through Congress.


 

How the Trump administration is spending millions to shore up Obamacare: The efforts come as the president has threatened to cut off key subsidies and GOP repeal efforts are in disarray.


 

Health Insurers Get More Time to Calculate Increases for 2018


 

When the President Is Un-American


 

Single Payer


 

2 MSNBC Hosts Destroy Trump Surrogate Over Trump’s Lies About the Economy - Video


 

What's next for Democrats on health care


 

Cancellation of bundled payment models reflects White House's stance on value based care


 

As the health care debate rages on, one set of voices is often missing — women’s


 

Trump Set to Roll Back Obama-Era Contraception Rule: Administration is poised to unwind a requirement that employee health benefits include contraception


 

White House: Gov’t to make health law payments this month


 

Leaked regulation: Trump plans to roll back Obamacare birth control mandate.  The administration is mulling broad exemptions from the health law requirement.


 

CMS proposes changes to the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model, cancellation of the mandatory Episode Payment Models and Cardiac Rehabilitation Incentive payment model


 

The Rise of History's Biggest Empire


 

Two members of the Ku Klux Klan, who worked as guards at a Florida prison, have been convicted of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder of a black inmate at their prison.


 

A Nation of the Walking Dead


 

To Find Alternatives to Capitalism, Think Small: Why co-ops, regional currencies, and hackerspaces are pointing the way toward a new economic vision.


 

JIM HIGHTOWER: A Deere in the spotlight


 

Apparently, Trump is a Winner Surrounded by Losers


 

Republican Inaction Leaves Rural Hospitals Endangered


 

Dunkirk Is a Morality Story for Shared Blessings of Peace


 

A Tale of Two Beaches: Stories about the heroism of strangers can restore your faith in humanity — but strangers are no substitute for public servants.


 

If Hell Had a Budget: The GOP Breaks the Ten Commandments


 

People, not politicians, beat health care repeal


 

Progressive Health Care Advances in the Golden State


 

Willie Sutton for A New Age


 

Distractions Keep Congress From Addressing Infrastructure


 

The Single-Payer Imperative


 

Don’t Dawdle On Economic And National Security: International trade law must be enforced now.


 

Trump Administration Fails to Buy American


 

Don’t lie to poor kids about why they’re poor


 

Whose Side Are They On: Main Street Consumers or Wall Street Banks?  The Senate Could Take Away Consumers’ Right to Go to Court to Challenge Wrongdoing by Financial Companies


 

Trump Adviser Icahn Loses Interest in Regulation, Severs Ties to Administration After Self-Enrichment Scheme Fails: Statement of Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen


 

Want to Really Help Workers? Protect their Speech!


 

Labor’s Bill of Rights


 

How Union-Busting Bosses Propel the Right Wing to Power


 

Heart of Whiteness: The Stories Western Philanthropists Tell Themselves: Why do Western efforts to help the environment and Africa so often fail?


 

Judginess Built the Middle Class: A new book explores the 19th-century origins of middle-class respectability—and the misfits kept out of the club.


 

Paid family and medical leave: An issue whose time has come 


 

Labour’s ‘NHS for education’ is an idea whose time has come


 

Howes: ‘Good Jobs’ bills target competitiveness for MI


 

How Trump Has Cultivated the White Supremacist Alt-Right for Years


 

Why Socialism? (by Albert Einstein)


 

Paul Ryan’s Case Against Obamacare Goes From Misleading to Outright False


 

Tax Reform Could Help The Working Class. Republicans Don’t Seem Interested.  The tax code offers powerful tool for boosting wages, which Republicans and Democrats have expanded in the past. That may be changing.


 

Trump’s Austerity Politics: How the president’s budget proposal grew out of New York’s financial crisis in the 1970s.


 

The Return of Monopoly: With Amazon on the rise and a business tycoon in the White House, can a new generation of Democrats return the party to its trust-busting roots?


 

The New Yuppies: How the aspirational class expresses its status in an age of inequality.


 

Created Equal: How the divide between rich and poor has undermined the Constitution.

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