Closely divided contests this year magnify the role of independent candidates and voters.
Private Equity
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Sears Was Gutted By Its Own CEO
Eddie Lampert not only ran the company; he was also its largest creditor and the guy who sold major Sears assets to … Eddie Lampert.
Posted inEconomic Policy
It Was Vulture Capitalism that Killed Sears
Don’t blame Amazon or the internet. The culprit was a predatory hedge fund.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How BlackRock Rules the World
The planet’s largest investment fund handles Mexico’s pension funds—and owns the companies they invest in. Cozy!
Posted inWorking in America
It’s Not the ‘Future of Work,’ It’s the Future of Workers That’s in Doubt
For Labor Day, a call for a new union strategy from three prominent workers’ advocates.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Before Big Pharma Kills Us, Maybe Public Pharma Can Save Us
Drug companies are abandoning antibiotic research to make more money elsewhere. Yet another reason why we need a publicly owned company.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Closing the New Affordable Housing Gaps
Low-income housing tax credits survived the Republicans’ draconian tax overhaul, but a lower corporate tax rate means investors have lost their appetite for the tax breaks that have helped build many of the country’s affordable housing projects.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Taking on Class and Racial Discrimination in Housing
Cory Booker’s big idea to rein in exclusionary zoning
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bank Deregulation 2.0 Is Here
A new bill supported by both Democrats and Republicans is yet another deregulatory action that gives Wall Street room to run in dangerous directions.
Posted inTAP
Adding Insult (More Precisely, Discomfort and Anger) to Injury
Airline passengers, abandon all hope. On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s Federal Aviation Administration decreedthat it would do nothing about the relentless shrinkage of airplane seats and legroom. Rejecting a plea from Flyers’ Rights (a passengers’ organization) and a judge’s order that it reconsider its position, the FAA said that such concerns as passenger comfort were none […]
