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Crushing Cantor by Dissing Wall Street
Let’s Measure the Job Market the Way We Gauge Stock Market Health
Have you noticed that the Powers that Be employ a different standard for measuring the health of America's job market than they use for the stock market? They're currently telling us that the job market is "improving." What do they mean? Simply that the economy is...
This Week in OtherWords: June 11, 2014
This week in OtherWords, Jim Hightower marvels at a British hedge fund titan's luxury chicken coop and Jill Richardson praises the EU's robust regulations for keeping its food safer to eat than ours. Do you want to make sure you don’t miss the latest from...
A Field Day for Fracking
U.S. and EU negotiators recently began a new round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement. Because the talks are happening behind closed doors, the public is left largely in the dark about the nature of the discussions over a deal also known as the...
Restoring the Right to Vote
Last year, the Supreme Court decimated one of the civil rights movement's crowning achievements. Now, it's time for Congress to pick up the pieces, put it back together and make our laws strong enough to protect our most important right: our vote. Many folks who lived...
2,300 Deaths Are Enough
President Barack Obama's recent attempt to define foreign policy failed to accurately reflect how Washington intends to end one of the biggest quagmires of our time: Afghanistan. "You are the first class to graduate since 9/11 who may not be sent into combat in Iraq...
These Chickens Don’t Need to Hedge Their Bets
Upper-class, über-rich Brits pay a price. In exchange for being blessed with wealth and social standing, they're expected to be at least slightly amusing to the general public, offering some combination of doofus, daffy, and scandalous. Crispin Odey fits this bill. He...
Fighting for the Right to End Inequality
Fast-food workers in hundreds of cities across the country and the world went on strike in mid-May to demand higher pay and better working conditions. These workers targeted the richest and most powerful fast-food corporations such as McDonald's and Burger King....
Free to Eat Whatever You Want
My neighbor just left to spend the entire summer in Europe. He's the guy with a highly restrictive diet I recently wrote about, with countless food intolerances that his "nutritionist" detected using dubious testing methods. I haven't had the heart to tell him she's a...
Recipe for Ripoffs
President Barack Obama is a surprisingly devout disciple of so-called "free trade." During his first presidential bid he promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), indicating some concern over the U.S.-Canada-Mexico pact. A month after...
