Working Life

   This is one reason people do not understand how the economy really works–because transcribers of press releases (formerly known as "journalists") don’t do their jobs. A basic point of journalism is tell the reader, fairly soon, WHY something happened…well, if you read this story, you don’t get there until it’s way too late: Investors […]

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   The "Greed is Good" ethos–let me get my hands on every dollar possible no matter how many people lose their jobs or how sleazy I look or how bad this is for the shareholders–has not gone away. As I’ve argued, part of the problem is that, since the financial crisis in 2008, the system […]

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