Posts Tagged ‘Social Security’
Rank-and-File Economics | 9/11 | Ponzi | Floods
(1) Rank-and-File Economics: I have just posted the cover story from our Sept/Oct 2011 Annual Labor Issue, Rank-and-File Economics: Fighting for a Wage- and Job-Led Recovery, by Katherine Sciacchitano. This is a great article–I hope it gets wide circulation. (I’m working on that now–submitting it to the news aggregators; you can help by linking to ...Read more.
Murdoch, Gang of Six, etc.
(1) Laffer’s Latest Curve-ball: Subscriber Kris W. alerted us that the dumb op-ed Arthur Laffer co-wrote for the WSJ a while back, which John Miller critiques in his July/August Up Against the Wall Street Journal column, is posted all over the web on anti-union websites and elsewhere. In connection with the NLRB’s recent decision against ...Read more.
Basel; Older Workers; Mott’s Strike; IMF
(1) Basel III Underwhelms. Global banking regulators came out with new rules on Sunday, mostly regarding capital reserves. Here’s what the article in yesterday’s New York Times had to say: The new requirements will more than triple the amount of capital that banks must hold in reserve, an effort to move banks toward more conservative ...Read more.
Arizona Injunction; Baker on CBO and SS
(1) Possibly Irrelevant Image for today: (2) Judge Blocks Az. Law S.B. 1070. Breaking news–U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton blocked key parts of Arizona’s restrictive and invasive immigration law, which was to go into effect in a couple of days. Here’s what the New York Times has to say: In a ruling on a ...Read more.
