Economics
Syria airstrikes added $10 billion to missile manufacturer stock values
April 16, 2018War, who is it good for? Missile manufacturers, that’s who.
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Wake-up call for Trump-voting farmers: Trade war will hit them hard
April 10, 2018If there were a betting pool in Las Vegas on a trade war between President Xi and President Trump, the Chinese dude would be an 8-1 favorite.
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Even on Equal Pay Day, some women less equal than others
April 10, 2018It was once said that “the female half of the human race is doubly oppressed under capitalism.” For working-class women of color, that oppression is tripled.
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MLK’s children: U.S. needs values revolution, not a sanitized idol
April 6, 2018"Quite frankly, I would say there were a number of reasons my father was killed. He was talking about a radical redistribution of wealth,” Martin Luther King III said.
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Senate passes rollback of some Dodd-Frank bank regulations
March 15, 2018Unbelievably, at a time of record-breaking bank profits, Congress now wants to deregulate some of the largest financial institutions in America.
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