JDsEconomics

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/technology/google-sexual-harassment-lawsuit-settlement.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Business  

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/stop-pretending-youre-not-rich.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article   America’s Dire Inequality Demands a New Conceptual Framework. This Economist Has One. https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/americas-dire-inequality-demands-a-new-conceptual-framework-this-economist-has-one

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/09/what-rent-drop-listed-prices-arent-budging-where-covid-19-hit-hardest.html  

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/09/democracy-scares-from-the-destruction-of-bryan-to-the-abdication-of-bernie-why-america-desperately-needs-a-second-populist-movement-but-aint-gonna-get-one-an-interview-review-of-the-peopl.html  

https://www.ksjomo.org/post/regressive-taxation-must-be-reversed  

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/fires-washington-california-oregon-malden.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage  

Strike. This Could Be Our Last Stand. If we can’t get our government to help us now, when will we ever?  

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/opinion/trump-economy-jobs.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage   The stock market isn’t the economy:  more than half  of all stocks are owned by only 1 percent of Americans, while the bottom half of the population owns only  0.7 percent  of the market. Jobs and G.D.P., by contrast, sort of are the economy. But they aren’t the economy’s point. What some economists and many politicians often forget is that economics isn’t fundamentally about data, it’s about people. I like data as much as, or probably more than, the next guy. But an economy’s success should be judged not by impersonal statistics, but by whether people’s lives are getting better. And the simple fact is that over the past few weeks the lives of many Americans have gotten much worse. Obviously this is true for the roughly  30,000 Americans  who died of Covid-19 in August — for comparison, only 4,000 people died in the European Union, w...

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2020/09/COVID19-and-global-inequality-joseph-stiglitz.htm  

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/03/opinion/sunday/progressive-policies-taxes.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage   https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/opinion/general-strike.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage