Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Economics and Corruption related links 092519



After the opioid verdict and fine, few industries are safe

One way to raise revenue: crack down on tax cheats

Assessing the health effects of a “no deal” Brexit

The moment Richard Graham is told 'this is a catastrophe' by furious Frenchwoman who travelled to Gloucester from Cotswolds home to confront him: 'You will not suffer the consequences for Brexit - but we will!'

Thought populists want to kill the EU?  It’s worse than that.  They want to reform it in their image.

As Trump Escalates Trade War, U.S. and China Move Further Apart With No End in Sight: The president has raised American tariffs to a level not seen since the 1960s.

Rich investors may have let a hospital go bankrupt. Now, they could profit from the land

Obama was better for your 401(k) than Trump has been

Vice President Mike Pence: US will play active role for successful Brexit: Pence has urged the EU to be open to further talks with Boris Johnson ahead of Brexit deadline. In a meeting with Ireland's President and Prime Minister, he also encouraged an exit that minimizes commercial disruption.

Boris Johnson dealt blow as Brexit rebels vote to seize control

Boris Johnson’s mission impossible

Boris Johnson heckled in Yorkshire in front of BBC News cameras

How Kansas’ GOP Leaders Kept Thousands From Getting Health Insurance

Boris Johnson resignation: Number 10 refuses to rule out PM stepping down after crushing Brexit defeats.  The prime minister says that resignation if he fails to deliver Brexit next month is ‘not a hypothesis I am willing to contemplate’

Farm loan delinquencies surge in U.S. election battleground Wisconsin

Uber co-founder buys record-breaking LA mansion for $72.5m as drivers fight for wages: Los Angeles sees a spike in the homelessness population while homes the size of football fields are selling for more than $100m

Congress Promised Student Borrowers A Break. Education Dept. Rejected 99% Of Them

Sanders rolls out ‘Bezos Act’ that would tax companies for welfare their employees receive

GOP Congressman Says the Poor 'Just Don’t Want Health Care'

Capitalism Is Meant To Fail

FARMERS UNION VICE PRESIDENT SAYS FARMERS HAVE 'PRETTY MUCH LOST ALL OUR MARKETS SINCE TRUMP TOOK OVER'

Ady Barkan fights for healthcare for all amid struggle with ALS

Brexit: bill intended to block no deal to become law after being passed by House of Lords – as it happened.  Benn bill passes the upper house without being amended, meaning it does not have to go back to House of Commons

Health Care Rationing? It's Already Reality Under Private Insurance: Almost 18% of working-age diabetics are skipping meds because they can’t afford it, a new report says.

Dental Care (and Lack Thereof) in Rural America

TRUMP’S G-7: NO TRADE DEAL, NO MILITARY DEAL, NO CLIMATE DEAL, YES ON HELPING HIMSELF.

As the School Year Starts, I’m Grateful for the ADA: As a teacher, I want my students to have the same opportunity to level the playing field I did.

Whom Do You Trust? My Goodness, Not Him

Dear politicians: Lower drug prices now.  As polarized as we are over many issues, we are not polarized about drug prices.

We Need Change in Health Coverage

To Save Rural Hospitals, Pass Medicare for All: Until everyone has access to health coverage, we’ll continue to see the devastating impacts of medical debt and struggling hospitals.

The Foreclosure Machine is Hard to Stop

A Tire That Should Inspire Fear in the Heart of Workers: This sad story is as old as NAFTA.

China Did Not Trick the US — Trade Negotiators Served Corporate Interests

Harmful to Your Health: The Dying Newspaper

Trade War with China is Good for US — If We Win

The Business Roundtable’s Strange Outbreak of Social Conscience

With the Boeing 737 MAX Grounded, Top Boeing Bosses Must Testify Before Congress Now

Ironies Abound in Obama-Produced Documentary, 'American Factory'

Jay-Z Isn’t a Sellout, He’s a Capitalist: He’s a billionaire who wants to be an NFL team owner, and erasing Colin Kaepernick is the price of admission.

Boris Johnson’s statements about the state of Brexit negotiations bear little relationship to reality, EU officials say

More of You: As 3D printing comes of age, researchers turn to 4D printing, and the possibility of building replacement organs from patients’ own stem cells.

Carrying the torch for labor renewal: AN INTERVIEW WITH JANE SLAUGHTER - FALL 2019

Ten lessons from the teacher strikes

East Bay DSA shows up for Oakland teachers

Anchor Steamed: How DSA worked to unionize an iconic craft brewery

Tories to contest John Bercow's seat in bid to oust Commons speaker: The speaker of the House of Commons would normally expect to stand for his seat in parliament unopposed by major parties.

Boris vs. Jo – oh brother

Trump kicks trade war into high gear

Irish Phoenix? The unexpected winner of Brexit

Student loan debt weighs heavy

When your sick kid becomes a sick adult

Smartphone-free or shackled to technology

Economic Update: Corporate Capitalism in Decline [FULL EPISODE]

Student-loan behemoth tightens its ties to Trump and DeVos: The company that rejected 99 percent of applicants for public-service loan forgiveness is leaning on political contacts as it comes under fire.

Inside the Education Department's effort to 'obstruct' student loan investigations: A letter by a top adviser to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos reveals how the department has prioritized student loan servicers over student borrowers, consumer advocates say.

How an Agency You've Never Heard of Is Leaving the Economy at Risk

North Carolina farmers dealing with a mental health crisis

Bercow resignation: He was the right man in the right place at the right time

Boris Johnson's suspension of parliament ruled unlawful by court: Scottish National Party MP calls for immediate recall of parliament

Brexit: Scottish judges rule Parliament suspension is unlawful

Why We Always Cover Union Fights From the Perspective of Workers, Not Bosses: We’ve been covering the labor movement for decades. And we’re not quitting.

Why Parents Hate Summer Break: The U.S. has a summer childcare crisis.

A Worker’s Place Is in the Museum: A new exhibit in New York honors the state’s labor history.

Trump officials tour unused FAA facility in California in search of a place to relocate homeless people

The 21 biggest donors to the Brexit campaign

Five arguments for Medicare for All

Universal Healthcare Would Free Unions To Fight for Workers

When Brussels decided to end tax avoiding practices, Britain decided to leave the EU.

US business owners plan to pull back on hiring and investing if the trade war continues, according to a new UBS survey

Billionaires hurt economic growth and should be taxed out of existence, says bestselling French economist

The man who broke Britain: Three years after leaving office, and in the midst of a deep political crisis, David Cameron is about to publish a book about his premiership. But can he justify his catastrophic legacy?

John Bercow: People can't ignore the rules then complain if the referee treads on them.  EXCLUSIVE: In his first interview since his decision to stand down, Speaker John Bercow tells Joe Murphy and Ayesha Hazarika why he loves the Commons and is unmoved by threats to block him from the Lords

Polling suggests more people in the North of England are anti-Brexit than in the South

Europeans once hoped the British would reverse Brexit. Now, many can’t wait for them to leave.

New York Uncovers $1 Billion in Sackler Family Wire Transfers

N.Y. AG: We found $1 billion in Sackler wire transfers, Purdue Pharma owners are 'lowballing' opioid victims.  The N.Y. attorney general said the owners of Oxycontin-maker Purdue Pharma "continue to lowball victims" in suits seeking billions over the opioid crisis.

The disappearing schools of Puerto Rico

Wetherspoons profits drop 19% and its boss is blaming Remainers

Oil prices spike after Saudi attack disrupts global supply

Fox News has spent months demonizing homelessness in California. Now Trump wants a major crackdown.

The trade bill has been dropped – and now MPs have no way to stop bad deals after Brexit: Chlorinated chicken is just the tip of the iceberg. Our elected representatives will struggle to stop a bad US trade deal, even if it were roundly unpopular and known to be harmful

Exemptions from tariffs: Another version of Trump's favorite trick.  It's a mystery who gets an exemption from Trump's tariffs and why, but any amateur illusionist could guess at the secret.

Economic Update: Capitalism in Denial

Mnuchin says 100-year Treasury bond possible

Lord Pannick stays calm and Keen lacks interest at supreme court: A bad day for nominative determinism at legal hearing over suspension of parliament

A crack just emerged in the financial markets: The NY Fed spends $53 billion to rescue the overnight lending market

Trump: Homeless people hurt the ‘prestige’ of Los Angeles, San Francisco

Trump vows to protect foreign real estate investors from America's homeless

Narco Nuns: Sisters Make Oil And Soap From Cannabis Believing It Is A "Gift From God" 

Trump administration allows pork slaughterhouses to have fewer USDA inspectors: The new rule also allows plants to run their processing lines as fast as they like.

BREAKING NEWS: FDA Approves Apalutamide (Erleada) for the treatment of metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer

GM Manages To Find $22 Million To Pay CEO As It Closes 5 Plants And Lays Off 15,000 Workers

The problem with health care is ‘the system’

Hightower: Here's the Real Deal on 'Medicare for All'

Getting to Know Farmers

The View from Behind the Ox is Not That Clear

Farmers Need a Bill of Rights

Falling: Job Growth Down at Very Small Firms

Big Business Is Suddenly Showing a Conscience. But Is That Enough?

WORKERS NEED MORE THAN A WAGE HIKE: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have far-reaching proposals to give workers something even more important than money: power.

Don’t Subsidize Companies That Silence Workers

In Praise Of Scabby The Rat: Trump’s general counsel at the National Labor Relations Board is leading an effort to trample labor unions’ First Amendment right to protest workplace practices.

Trump's Labor Day Attacks on Workers

The 5 Biggest Corporate Lies About Unions: Don’t believe the lies. Today’s unions are growing, expanding, and boosting the wages and economic prospects of those who need them most.

Health Care/Joan Retsinas: The Know Nothings Redux

Who Will Benefit from Opioid Settlement Money?

Why some people don't trust doctors

Wile E. Trump

Democracy Needs Unions

Put US Manufacturers On Equal Footing with Government-Paid Comprehensive Health Insurance

Jobs is Survived By His Machines

Parable of the Water Tank - Chapter 1

China Stops Buying US Agricultural Products Entirely.  This is...very bad.

The harsh reality of underfunding at my hospital? Swept away for Johnson visit: Doctor gives anonymous account of chronic understaffing and lack of resources at Whipps Cross, the hospital visited by the PM

Strike!  Unbreakable human solidarity is what we need, and mass strikes are the strategy to get it.

'The men who plundered Europe': bankers on trial for siphoning €60bn.  Martin Shields and Nick Diable are accused of tax fraud in ‘cum-ex’ scandal that exposes City’s pursuit of profit

The Button

Number of Americans Without Health Insurance Increased in 2018, Report Finds

A hidden index-fund crisis?

Boris Johnson's billionaire leadership backer urged prorogation before he became PM

Donald Trump is no hero of the working class. And the GM strikers know it: The walkout at General Motors is a predictable and powerful result of the president’s own kind of capitalism

Warren and Biden show up at UAW strike

Breakfast with a Brexiteer: Historian Andrew Roberts speaks with TAI about leadership—and the case for a no-deal Brexit.

The Politics of Chinese Loans in Russia

Boris Johnson 'must address conflict of interest claims'

I Fought the Law - Boris Johnson x The Clash

The Highest Suicide Rate in the World

Boris Johnson and his Brexit plans suffer a blow in the Supreme Court: It rules that his suspension of Parliament was illegal

The EU reaches a tentative deal to share out migrants rescued at sea: But this is only part of the solution

The story behind “Billion Dollar Whale”: Its road to publication in Britain has been long

The verdict is in: Boris Johnson is a liar. And he should pay the price.  The supreme court could not have been clearer: Johnson’s prorogation of parliament was a subversion of democracy

George Carlin - Education

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