guillotine watch The Rent's Too Damned High: 15,000 words on the ways real-estate speculation and inequality have killed NYC Cory Doctorow
class war GDP vs human thriving: a "healthy" economy means debt-haunted people, desperately searching for housing Cory Doctorow
law Illinois votes to eliminate inmates' doctor visit co-pays, equivalent to one month's wages Cory Doctorow
Business Amid wage stagnation, corporate leaders declare the end of annual raises triggered by increased profitability Cory Doctorow
law Supreme Court rules that employers can make signing away your right to sue them in a class a condition of employment Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism The Vatican dunks on the finance industry and its "amoral culture" Cory Doctorow
Kids Stagnant wages + soaring cost of living + massive cuts to services = collapsing US birth-rate Cory Doctorow
usausausa America's new aristocracy: the 9.9% and their delusion of hereditary meritocracy Cory Doctorow
piketty How the "global super-rich" have honeycombed London's posh neighbourhoods with sub-basements, sub-sub-basements, and sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-basements Cory Doctorow
class war Trump's sweetheart tax deal for economically useless financial engineering triggers a stock buyback bonanza Cory Doctorow
History Forced prison labor put downward pressure on wages at American companies, worsening inequality Cory Doctorow
law Eviction Lab: a comprehensive database of every eviction proceeding in America for the past 16 years Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Credit bubble a-burstin': wave of bankruptcies sweeps subprime car-lenders Cory Doctorow
Business The Wall Street Journal on the decade since the crash: inequality, giant banks, regulatory failures, looming catastrophe Cory Doctorow
class war Rail barons and the new gilded age: one-percenters travel in style by hitching private "super-luxe" railcars to Amtrak trains Cory Doctorow
happy mutants 1.7 million viewers tuned into Bernie Sanders' Inequality Town Hall webcast Cory Doctorow
surveillance Billionaire Cartier boss returns from fishing holiday gripped with terror that the poors are going to start building guillotines Cory Doctorow
