Fackföreningsekonomen Daniel Lind och ekonomiprofessorn Lars Calmfors har under det senaste året haft en animerad diskussion om forskningen kring ‘monopsoni’ och ‘lägstalöner’ i Ekonomisk Debatt och Affärsvärlden. En central tvistefråga i diskussionen mellan Lind och Calmfors gäller lägstalönerna i Sverige. Lind hävdar att höjda lägstalöner inte med nödvändighet behöver leda till färre jobb. Han menar […]
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“I’ve always made it a policy to never question good fortune.”
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Food items mentioned by Lyle Lovett:
- Summer strawberries from the Pacific Northwest
- Eggs, bacon, and pancakes from IHOP
- Two-thirds-of-a-pound burgers, served with chips and a jar of pickled jalapeños
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Lyle Lovett has been a mainstay of the American music scene since he was playing the bars and burger joints around College Station, Texas, in the 1980s. He learned to sing in his Lutheran school choir and started playing guitar while his age was still in the single digits. While Lovett always loved music, he didn’t start trying to make a go of it until he was attending college at Texas A&M and began playing around town. Eventually, the legendary Texas troubadour Guy Clark heard a demo tape of Lovett’s songs and helped him get a deal with MCA Records.
“The Trump administration is considering taking stakes in defense contractors, including Lockheed Martin Corp, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Tuesday as he defended President Donald Trump’s push for a greater government role in American business.” —Reuters
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Wake up, America. It’s Dunkin’. History is happening, and it smells like scalding hot hazelnut pumped into your nostrils with the force of pure freedom.
While you were blinking at your phones, the US federal government acquired a 60 percent majority stake in a goddamn donut chain. Uncle Sam is now the de facto barista of the republic. This Department of Diabetes is a public utility, and it’s time to make the people’s donuts, you ridiculous monkey-see-monkey-do rubes, courtesy a modest cut from every one of your feeble little paychecks.
There are several reasons for the insularity of economics, most importantly the different epistemological cultures of the various social science disciplines and the power inequalities between them. First, the theory of action that comes with economists’ analytical style is hardly compatible with the basic premise of much of the human sciences, namely that social processes […]
Rep. Deborah Ross became the latest Democrat to swear off AIPAC amid pressure to hold Israel accountable for its genocide in Gaza.
The post Facing Voter Pressure, Swing-State Democrat Swears Off AIPAC Cash appeared first on The Intercept.
“How extremely profitable all of this precarity has become.” Author Brian Goldstone on working and homelessness in today’s America.
The post The Housing Hunger Games appeared first on The Intercept.
Grimes faces an official complaint to the council after using manipulated imagery and attacking asylum seekers as 'deviants'
I was recently part of an online discussion that asked this question. People were talking about industry, democracy, civil society, world leadership, you name it. But nobody was asking the obvious question: when, in fact, will the sun set on the United States? Yes, I’m going there. As we all know, the continental United […]
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) — the industry powerhouse that has been unrivalled since buying out World Championship Wrestling, its former competitor, in the early 2000s — is fairly openly aligned with Donald Trump’s administration. Recently, they rehired Brock Lesnar, who is implicated in the Vince McMahon sex trafficking scandal; WWE has close relationships with Logan […]
What we are starting to witness is the nascent elements of a complete authoritarian takeover, reports Alexandra Hall Hall from Washington
Episode 3 in the third season of our Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) manga – The Smith Family and their Adventures with Money – produced by MMTed is now available (August 29, 2025). The Smith Family is a middle-class family living in a city somewhere in the world. The second-generation parents are university educated and have…
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