Prepare to be
amazed and slightly outraged! We've compiled a list of 16 things that defy
logic with their astonishingly high prices. 16 Things That Just Shouldn’t Be So
Expensive (#10 Is Ridiculous!) – August 20, 2024
The Consumer
Price Index rose 2.5 percent over the past year - September 13, 2024
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2024/the-consumer-price-index-rose-2-5-percent-over-the-past-year.htm
Why I Drive Out
of State for Prenatal Care. An abortion
ban in my home state of South Dakota is likely to leave doctors unable to treat
me should I experience a severe complication. – September 27, 2024
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/travel-prenatal-care-abortion-ban/
A Return to
Gompers – October 1, 2024
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/a-return-to-gompers
Dialectic At
Work: Why Does Dialectics Matter for Climate Politics? – October 10, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwArQcRMnBo
Social Security
Announces 2.5 Percent Benefit Increase for 2025 - October 10, 2024
https://blog.ssa.gov/social-security-announces-2-5-percent-benefit-increase-for-2025/
BRICS Country
Rejects De-Dollarization, Embraces the US Dollar – October 10, 2024
https://watcher.guru/news/brics-country-rejects-de-dollarization-embraces-the-us-dollar
Hotel Workers’
Union UNITE HERE Calls on Hotels to Notify Guests of Ongoing Strikes – October
10, 2024
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hotel-workers-union-unite-calls-091500899.html
Trump’s Tax-Free
Tipping Scheme: Another GOP Gift for Billionaires? Will service workers benefit, or will hedge
funds and big banks reclassify bonuses or bribes as tips? – October 11, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-tax-free-tipping-scheme-another-ddd
Understanding
Capitalism Richard Wolff Development Study Group – October 11, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1ReZHSMnqE
Starbucks Could
Owe Millions To Baristas Who Unionized. A
new federal complaint alleges the chain slashed workers' schedules without
bargaining. – October 11, 2024
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/starbucks-baristas-schedule-cuts_n_67094e9ae4b0c2f4a1350052
A Proclamation on
Blind Americans Equality Day, 2024 - October 11, 2024
People are coming
together, taking care of each other. That's real solidarity. – October 12, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi-Qm0OTkpg
Can Math Prove
Democrats Are America's Best Option? – October 12, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp-jFe9TB5c
The economics of
free lunch. American schools spend ~$900B a year on
education. Should the federal government pay more for meals?
https://thehustle.co/originals/the-economics-of-free-lunch
Economic Update:
Flint: The Water Crisis Persists W/Jordan Chariton – October 14, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVc8gb1AfRg
This Erie union
leader is the kind of voter who could swing the presidential race. Ryan Sanders’ union endorsed Harris, but the
Pennsylvania sheet metal worker still needs to be convinced. – October 14, 2024
Boeing prepares
layoff notices for thousands of workers as turmoil deepens – October 14, 2024
Another
Massachusetts city will try giving thousands of dollars directly to low-income
residents – October 16, 2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/salem-guaranteed-income-uplift-program/
Capitalism Hits
Home: Whole Societies Can Be In Denial, Ours Certainly Is... – October 17, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o03piEvtnN4
‘Horrifying’
mistake to take organs from a living person was averted, witnesses say - October
17, 2024
FACT SHEET:
President Biden Announces Over 1 Million Public Service Workers Have Received
Student Debt Cancellation Under the Biden-Harris Administration – October 17, 2024
Senate report:
How private equity ‘gutted’ dozens of U.S. hospitals – October 17, 2024
Union Petitions
Filed with NLRB Double Since FY 2021, Up 27% Since FY 2023
Wolff Responds:
"Another Nobel prize for the same old mainstream economics" – October
18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7PRUDjyr6Q
War in the
Coalfields: The “Ludlow Massacre” and its Impact on the Eight-hour workday
Kentucky man’s
organs were nearly harvested. Then doctors realized he was still alive. The patient allegedly mouthed the words ‘help
me’ ahead of the organ retrieval procedure – October 18, 2024
How Hurricane
Helene is threatening dialysis patients – October 20,
2024
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4941096-how-hurricane-helene-is-threatening-dialysis-patients/
Economic Update:
Puerto Rican Crises and Left Political Unity – October 21, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plw9-iEwiTU
FACT SHEET:
Biden-Harris Administration Proposes Rule to Expand Coverage of Affordable
Contraception Under the Affordable Care Act – October 21, 2024
Property Taxes
Under Fire: North Dakota’s Radical Plan to End Them. Is this the beginning of the end for property
taxes? One state could change the game… – October 22, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/property-taxes-under-fire-north-dakotas-be9
NSA Tells iPhone
And Android Users: Reboot Your Device Now – October 22, 2024
Property Pirates:
How Trump's Billionaires Are Hijacking Affordable Housing. With every investment home they snatch, the
dream of owning a house slips further away from you… – October 23, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/property-pirates-how-billionaires-6bf
10 Home Remedies
To Get Rid of Chest Mucus – October
23, 2024
https://www.health.com/condition/cold/how-to-get-rid-of-chest-congestion
An investigation
exposes data brokers using ads to help track almost any phone. / Locate X uses a phone’s mobile advertising
ID to create a vast network of device locations. – October 23, 2024
20 Photos That
Show What Life Was Like in the 1950s – October 23, 2024
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/20-photos-that-show-what-life-was-like-in-the-1950s/ss-AA1sSdPw
Dialectic At
Work: Nobel Laureates, Settler Colonialism and Hypocrisy – October 24, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1MNfHaHaY
Economic Update:
The Missing Economics of the 2024 US Presidential Election – October 28, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTnO_BpOIFc
Monopolies Are
Why We Are Restarting Three Mile Island.
One of the easiest ways to expand our electric grid is to use data to
make it more efficient. Who is standing in the way? Utility monopolies. –
October 29, 2024
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopolies-are-why-we-are-restarting
Baby Power. Emily Oster and the rise of the optimization
parent. – October 29, 2024
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/emily-oster-unexpected-parenting-data/
Wolff Responds:
"It's the Unequal, Unstable Economy, Stupid!" – October 30, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIJR7-rX1DE
H5N1 bird flu
virus discovered in pigs – October 30, 2024
https://thehill.com/homenews/4962884-h5n1-bird-flu-virus-discovered-in-pigs/
Noblesse Oblige
Is Dead: Today’s Wealthy Elite Just Don’t Give a Damn. We need a cultural shift that views wealth
not just as privilege, but as a duty to uplift society—reviving the forgotten
principle of noblesse oblige... – October 29, 2024
https://hartmannreport.com/p/noblesse-oblige-is-dead-todays-wealthy-c53
Capitalism Hits
Home: History of Childhood – October 31, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sz0YubVKVk
Boeing Union
Contract Reached w/ 43% Wage Increase - Biden-Harris Team to Play Up Win -
Kamala Leads Union Members 47%-36% - October 31, 2024
https://paydayreport.com/untitled-10/
'Much more
dangerous than people realize': The Economist on Trump's risks, Harris
endorsement – November 1, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK3WS-emZiU
Economic Update:
The Economics of US Labor Struggles and Gaza – November 4, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA4FTdNfeAI
30 Things You
Could Buy For $1 in 1900 – November 5, 2024
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/30-things-you-could-buy-for-1-in-1900/ss-AA1txSIx
Wolff Responds
Special Election Reaction – November 6, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naVnsgeVHYg
10 Things the
Middle Class Won’t Be Able To Afford in Less Than a Decade – November 6, 2024
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/10-things-middle-class-won-160004493.html
Dialectic At
Work: Knowledge and Class – November 7, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmBXCXs78Ic
The True Threat
to American Retirement. The wealthy
don’t want to retire. The middle class can barely afford to. We need a better
vision for old age. – November 18, 2024
https://newrepublic.com/article/186757/true-threat-american-retirement
Richard Wolff
& Michael Hudson: Karl Marx and the Fall of the West – November 10, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Ovguv1BSA
Economic Update:
The Global Movement for Cooperatives with Jerome N. Warren – November 11, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvWXICQhmx0
Richard Wolff:
The End of the US Empire and the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and
BRICS – November 12, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0lPWGlwPvk
Capitalism Hits
Home: Why Did Trump Win? – November 14, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyD92wXZbcA
What Will Trump’s
Economic Plan Mean for American Wallets? | Amanpour and Company – November 14,
2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MiVJHOBOig
Economic Update:
The Dangers and Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with RJ Eskow –
November 18, 2024
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