Sunday, March 11, 2018

Economics and Corruption related links 031218



Bill Gates: People like me should have to pay higher taxes


 

New York Lawmakers: Trump Administration Budget Plan Could Endanger 9/11 Responders’ Health


 

New Medicare Cards are coming!


 

Trump’s quiet campaign to bring back preexisting conditions: The administration is waging a quiet regulatory war against Obamacare.


 

Five tips to avoid the new Medicare card scams


 

New Threats to the ACA: Administrative Changes


 

The Time has Come for Medicare Dental Benefits


 

Medicare coverage of screening tests for heart disease


 

The Trump tax cut earned Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway $29 billion in 2017


 

This Is What Life Without Retirement Savings Looks Like: Many seniors are stuck with lives of never-ending work—a fate that could befall millions in the coming decades.


 

Supreme Court unions case: Three reasons why it matters


 

The Tech Moguls Driving Mass Layoffs in the Economy Want Universal Basic Income as a Cure—Should Progressives Be Cheering?


 

The 1% grabbed 82% of all wealth created in 2017


 

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY


 

Piercing the Corporate Veil: When LLCs and Corporations May be at Risk: An LLC or corporation's owners, members, or shareholders may be on the hook personally for business debt.


 

When Corporate Officers Are Personally Liable


 

President Donald Trump wants tariffs on steel and aluminium: To get them, he is causing chaos


 

Trump just got implicated in an insider trading scheme that may explain his latest controversial move


 

Former Trump Adviser Dumped Millions in Steel Stocks Days Before the President Announced New Tariffs


 

Oprah got perfect response from Danish woman on their social welfare state


 

Trump Commerce Secretary: Let them eat soup


 

Democrats proven right—again—on tax cut windfall for the rich


 

Why driverless cars will mostly be shared, not owned: The total number of vehicles on the roads could have halved by 2050


 

What is the Difference Between Entitlement and Needs-Based Benefits?


 

I’m a Depression historian. The GOP tax bill is straight out of 1929


 

Gary Cohn to Resign as Trump’s Top Economic Adviser


 

USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills: Among those who say billionaire didn't pay: dishwashers, painters, waiters


 

Trump White House quietly issues report vindicating Obama regulations: It was easy to miss, but OMB demolishes the GOP’s deregulatory claims.


 

Kellyanne Conway’s 'opioid cabinet' sidelines drug czar’s experts: In Trump's White House, political appointees take control as the opioid epidemic rages.


 

Are corporate tax incentives worth it?


 

Nearly half of cancer deaths linked to preventable risk factors: Study


 

Cloned monkeys, a first, spur inevitable questions of when human clones will follow


 

The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone: Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education.


 

The Main Purpose of Schooling


 

Fed caps growth at Wells Fargo over sham accounts, other consumer abuses


 

Even By Our Awful Standards, Americans Have Basically Stopped Saving Money


 

'Corporations Are People' Is Built on an Incredible 19th-Century Lie: How a farcical series of events in the 1880s produced an enduring and controversial legal precedent


 

The Populist Realignment That Never Came: Trump's budget proposal extinguishes any remaining hope that he might reshape the Republicans' economic agenda.


 

Trump’s New Budget Plan Proves He Won’t Even Pretend to Care About the Debt: The era of big government is far from over.


 

The president's budget doesn't matter, and you should ignore it


 

Fraudulence of the Fiscal Hawks


 

A New Era of Big Spending in Trump's Washington: With a budget deal that will spike outlays by $300 billion over two years, lawmakers rediscover the key to consensus in Congress: Crack open the federal piggy bank.


 

Consumer prices jump much more than forecast, sparking inflation fears


 

Inflation Rose Faster than Expected in January


 

Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems.  Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?


 

President Trump Said Stock Market Gains Reduced the National Debt. That's Not How It Works


 

New Trump rules will drive people with disabilities off Medicaid and out of work


 

Measles cases in Europe quadruple as vaccination rates drop: Vaccines save lives


 

Bernie Sanders slams Democrats for lacking 'guts' to fight Big Pharma


 

Senate poised to ease Dodd-Frank rules for most banks


 

Bernie Sanders To Hold Televised Town Hall On Economic Inequality: The Vermont senator hopes to build on the success of a widely viewed “Medicare for all” session.


 

Hobbling Unions in the Name of Free Speech: The Supreme Court's conservative justices were receptive to arguments Monday that public employees shouldn't be forced to pay union fees.


 

The Future of Unions May Depend on a Guy Who Thinks Corporations Are People: An important SCOTUS update.


 

Tax cut scoreboard: Workers $6 billion; Shareholders $171 billion


 

California fruit will ‘die on the vine after ice raids,’ labor warns


 

Study By MIT Economist: U.S. Has Regressed To A Third-World Nation For Most Of Its Citizens


 

Trump Health Secretary: There Is ‘No Such Thing As Medical Marijuana’


 

Trump doesn’t even beat a generic Democrat candidate in new poll


 

'Pharma bro' Martin Shkreli sentenced to 7 years in prison — says 'This is my fault'


 

Over 500 Canadian doctors protest raises, say they're being paid too much (yes, too much)


 

Elizabeth Warren Bashes Fellow Dems Over Banking Rules: ‘I Call It Like I See It’.  “Saying Democrats are helping to roll back rules on big banks doesn’t make me the most popular kid on the team,” the senator said, defending her decision to bash colleagues.


 

Trump Administration: Idaho Can’t Violate Key Obamacare Provisions


 

The News Is Breaking: Poor reporting and the chaos of social media have put responsible journalism in grave danger.


 

Letters From the March 5, 2018, Issue: Hans and Franz economics… Fear and self-loathing… Millennials vs. boomers… Agree to disagree… Taxation and miseducation…


 

Work Requirements Failed Once, and They’ll Fail Again: Requiring Medicaid recipients to find employment is a cruel solution to a nonexistent problem.


 

Trump Is Making Life Even Harder for Working-Class Women: His administration has already made workers, especially women, poorer, less secure, and less safe.


 

Where Did It All Go Wrong?  American labor has struggled to make substantial gains since the ’70s, but not for the reasons historians think.


 

Trump Hates the Trade Deficit. Most Economists Don’t.


 

How Monopolies Gamed the System: And why we need to change the rules—again.


 

Meet the World’s Most Feared Antitrust Enforcer: Margrethe Vestager, the EU commissioner for competition, discusses leveling the economic playing field.


 

The Real Reason Workers Can’t Get A Raise: A preemptive war on inflation will tamp down any real wage growth.


 

Elizabeth Warren’s ‘Big Fight’ Against Monopolies: Warren speaks to The Nation about power, markets, and breaking up corporate giants.


 

Special Investigation: The Dirty Secret Behind Warren Buffett’s Billions.  America’s favorite investor loves monopoly, not free markets.


 

Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market: The company is a radically new kind of monopoly with ambitions that dwarf those of earlier empires.


 

Does Monopoly Power Explain Workers’ Stagnant Wages?  As industries get more concentrated, workers have fewer employment options—and less leverage to get a raise.


 

‘The Long-Term Goal Is to Take Out Unions and Their Boots on the Ground’


 

West Virginia Strike Highlights Corporate Media’s Atrophied Labor Coverage


 

‘Our Healthcare Crisis Won’t Be Solved Until We Get Private Insurance Out’  CounterSpin interview with Margaret Flowers on undermining single-payer


 

What Happened to the $2.6 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund?


 

Kushner resort could make millions off gov't-backed ferry project


 

My Daughter’s Tennis Coach Is a Corrupt Grifter. What Should I Do?  Another reader asks about the end of erotic attention in the workplace.


 

A Day at a Time: Christa Wolf’s life under surveillance.


 

It’s Easier Than We Think: Ralph Nader On How We Can Change Society


 

The Long Goodbye: Katy Butler On How Modern Medicine Decreases Our Chance Of A Good Death


 

The End Of Insurance?  Andrew Coates On Fixing Our Broken Healthcare System


 

Sanctuary Sites


 

The World Of Love


 

Hospital Runs


 

Democrats once represented the working class. Not any more: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama helped shift power away from the people towards corporations. It was this that created an opening for Donald Trump


 

Commentary: The Russians pretended to be Texans — and the Texans believed them

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