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Connect the dots to see why wages aren’t growing for most Americans

By / 22 Comments / 10 March 2016

Summary: America has become increasingly destabilized during the few decades, as the 1% grows stronger and seizes resources to grow still stronger. This post shows them at work shifting income from workers’ wages to corporate profits. Inequality doesn’t just happen; it results from people making decisions under a specific political and social conditions. In the …

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Watch corporations strip-mine their future (and ours)

By / 15 Comments / 12 November 2017

Summary: Al Qaeda (Bin Laden’s organization, if it still exists in meaningful form) is a threat to America. A greater threat are our CEO’s, some of whom who have discovered discovered a formula to vast personal wealth: leverage the company up (borrow), use those funds to buy back stock (boosting earnings per share), cut capital …

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Nike swooshes us into a future of fewer jobs, low pay

By / 10 Comments / 25 February 2015

Summary: The Third Industrial Revolution has arrived. Slowly arrived, but not so slowly that we cannot see its effects. Here we look at one company’s participation in the revolution, and the effects. It’s a lesson of what’s coming, which we pay for with the scarcest of resources: time.   Contents Nike joins the 3rd industrial …

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For Thanksgiving, Walmart shows us the New America

By / 18 Comments / 22 June 2014

Summary: Words have failed to convey to you the nature of the New America being built on the ruins of the America-that-once-was (for a brief period after WW2).  Let’s try pictures, pictures about Thanksgiving in the New America — at Walmart. . Contents WalMart shows us the New America Bad news about the New America …

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Four graphs showing a nation in decline. An unnecessary and easily fixed decline.

By / 25 Comments / 14 June 2014

Summary:  We mock China for their over investment in infrastructure. Gleaming new factories, high-speed trains, subways. Foolish ants. Exceptional America does it better. As a third in this series, we look at some pictures of how much America invests in itself.  These are snapshots, not a comprehensive assessment. Still, they tell a chilling story.  We …

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