World debt rose to record value last year For the first time, all U.S. banks pass Fed’s stress tests This chilling NRA ad calls on its members to save America by fighting liberals Angela Merkel predicts showdown with U.S. over climate at G-20 Trump’s ‘Morning Joe’ tweet shows his ‘viciousness’ has no limit The Ironworker running to unseat Paul Ryan wants single-payer health care, $15 minimum wage
Fantastic Ben Bernanke speech on the populist wave: “When Growth is Not Enough” The Seattle minimum wage study that’s been causing a stir this week Why we shouldn’t drug test poor people The Republican Waterloo Mayors of 7,400 cities vow to meet Obama’s climate commitments IMF lowered its forecast for the US economy growth
Senate introduces bill to end federal medical marijuana prohibition GOP satisfaction drops 17 percent in one month In New York City, fast-food workers may soon have a permanent voice Amazon to buy Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in bid to become major grocer About 4,000 more U.S. troops to go to Afghanistan McCleary roundup: Inslee pressures lawmakers as budget talks near the brink — again
How Democrats would fix Obamacare Regulatory ‘reform’ that is anything but Republicans are about to make Medicare-for-all much more likely U.S. jobless claims fall, remain near 44-year low The robot takeover is greatly exaggerated U.K. inflation rate rises more than forecast to four-year high The root of Appalachia’s problems
Trump is deluded about NAFTA Despite falling unemployment, U.S. wages stay stagnant Kamala Harris is (again) interrupted while pressing a Senate witness The solution is single-payer The hidden cost of privatization How companies actually decide what to...
Next up: Attorney General Sessions in the hot seat At $75,560, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard Can McConnell sneak Obamacare repeal through while no one is looking? The Fed and inflation. What are they going to do? Donald Trump’s obsequious cabinet is something to behold Republicans can’t really repeal Dodd-Frank
US homeownership rate is 63.6% which is near its lowest level in more than five decades Trump’s economic agenda doesn’t look good The inconvenient truth of consumer debt Hot investment tip: The health of poor children Is slow productivity growth here to stay? How the British right went so very wrong
Dear Paul Ryan: Listen to your constituents House GOP Votes to deregulate Wall Street and gut consumer protections There are now 47 counties where no health plans want to sell Obamacare Class resentment and the center-left, or the Politics of “We Are the 80%” Poll: Dem Ossoff leads by 7 in Georgia House race American left sees hope in Britain’s socialist surge
Trickle-down lies are falling apart Thomas Frank visits the industrial heartlands of northern England Democrats pounce on Handel for ‘livable wage’ remark Comey: Trump administration spread ‘lies, plain and simple’ As voodoo economics collapses in Kansas, Trump takes it national The fallacy of endless economic growth
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