Pluralistic: Why the Fed wants to crush workers (19 Jan 2023)

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Why the Fed wants to crush workers: Fall of Rome speedrun.
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Pluralistic: 04 Aug 2022

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A TRAP for workers: Oops, we re-invented indenture.
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Pluralistic: 27 Jul 2022

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"War Against All Puerto Ricans": Required reading for the eve of a new independence referendum.
Dashcam repo: Cruising the streets with a license plate camera to win debt-collector bounties.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
This day in history: 2017
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Pluralistic: 08 Jul 2022

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Finance caused the fall of Rome: A politics of protecting contracts and property is a civilizational suicide pact.
Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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Pluralistic: 03 May 2022

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The Democrats' self-immolating fetish for means-testing: How to lose an election…and a nation.
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Pluralistic: 29 Jan 2022

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No, payday lenders aren't nice guys: Won't someone think of the poor usurers?
The Right to Repair: A stupendous new book on a very urgent subject.
This day in history: 2002, 2017, 2021
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Pluralistic: 27 Jan 2022

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As stocks tumble, wealthy speculators bid up house prices: The long-run effect of Obama's choice to bail out lenders, not borrowers.
Cops' imaginary fears send addicts to real jail: The deadly myth of the fentanyl contact high.
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Pluralistic: 26 Oct 2021

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Maxing out our global credit-card with authoritarian debt: Or, why countries are spending more on "border security" than the climate emergency.
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Pluralistic: 02 Oct 2021

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How the IMF loan-sharks the global south: With surcharges, the cruelty is the point.
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Pluralistic: 29 Sep 2021

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Debts that can't be paid, won't be paid: The first David Graeber Foundation meetup, between Thomas Piketty and Michael Hudson.
"Are you calling me a racist?": The libertarian case for racism.
Wells Fargo can't stop criming: The nation's third-biggest bank is a criminal enterprise.
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