Robert ReichCorporate profits only accounted for roughly 11% of price growth from 1979 to 2019.
Today, record corporate profits account for 53.9% of price increases.
Folks, corporate greed is driving inflation, not workers asking for better wages.
BoneChillin'Cold
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Corporate profits are at a 70-year high.
Corporate consolidation has given companies unprecedented power.
It wasn’t always like this.
Here’s how the corporate takeover of American politics began.
Ken WhiteI've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"
What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.
lol one of the Rightie nutjobs said something angry about me and now lots of new friends are showing up at Substack
Kendra AlbertMy non-legal advice: if your actions facially meet the elements of the crime in the group chat name, change the group chat name. https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/ftx-s-inner-circle-had-a-secret-chat-group-called-wirefraud-20221213-p5c5sx (h/t @mmasnick )
emptywheelFollow the Money: Merrick Garland Told You So
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/12/13/follow-the-money-merrick-garland-told-you-so/
