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Volume 21: The Post Office
Neither by Snow, nor Rain, nor Heat, nor Darkness “The post office, or any world of work, is only one institutionalized system of control...


Collective Bargaining and Constitutional Avoidance
As I mentioned, with the apparent coming of an early spring to Brooklyn, my mind has turned to the relationship between labor, capital,...


Medicare Extra for All - My Questions
White papers on health policy are seldom cause for me to get excited. As a rule, they are statements of principle, lacking the specifics...


Labor's Share of Income
Labor policy and labor economics are a frequent thought of mine, but not one on which I’ve written previously. I was forwarded this...


Volume 20: Secession
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds o


Hurting Your Own Constituents, For No Reason
It will not save the state any significant amount of money. It will, however, cruelly kick the young, old, sick and disabled out of the prog


A Brief History of Net Neutrality
The year 2008 doesn’t seem like such a long time ago. Unless you are among my youngest readers, it isn’t just some foggy memory from your...


Volume 19: The Efficient Market Hypothesis
It's Why You (Probably) Can't Beat the Market “The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient,” –...


Trump-proof Your State
Let's forget, for a second, what an awful human being Donald Trump is. It's hard, I know - I mean the guy has literally sanitized...


Getting Selfish on Taxes
I pay a lot of tax. Being a relatively high earner, entirely through earned income, while living in New York State and New York City, you...
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