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    The Workplace — A Few Charts

    September 28, 2017

    I have tried to use diagrams to explain the vast impact that the never ending search for higher shareholder value has had on the American workplace. Here is my attempt to show what the old workplace looked like in terms of the benefits to a worker … This diagram demonstrates that a traditional job brought […]

    Economics, Politics, Uncategorized / corporate taxes, Federal Budget, Federal deficit, fiscal policy /

    Tax Fog

    September 28, 2017

    Whenever we are told about a Trump plan we have to use the word “plan” very carefully. Thus far Trump’s various plans have been more vague suggestions, hints, clues to what’s inside his head, or varieties of “what a plan were to look like were Trump to have an actual plan, but he doesn’t”. This […]

    Politics / democracy, health care, plutocracy, Republicans, Trump /

    Ugly and Uglier

    September 25, 2017

    Is uglier even a word? Anyway: this is not about economics. One reason I have not been very communicative in the past two months is my disgust at the state of the nation. America is simply not the place I came to live in back in the late 1970’s. It is a tired, aging, and […]

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