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David Dayen
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This Labor Day, @theprospect has a full slate of coverage about the state of the American labor movement. So much that we started last Friday! 1/x
.@mikeelk on immigrant workers, worker centers and labor fighting workplace deportation raids prospect.org/article/how-im…
.@greenhousenyt on Trump's war on workers prospect.org/article/worker…
Todd E. Vachon, Gerry Hudson, Judith LeBlanc & Saket Soni on a "bargaining for the common good" approach to the climate crisis prospect.org/article/how-wo…
Heidi Shierholz of @EconomicPolicy on the labor law changes we need prospect.org/article/restor…
Our @haroldmeyerson on sectoral bargaining prospect.org/article/bargai…
Bobbi Murray on the National Labor Relations Board's overturning of precedents prospect.org/article/trump-…
And @alex_sammon on cashierless stores and automation prospect.org/article/jobs-r…
If you like our Labor Day lineup keep coming back to prospect.org. And maybe help us deliver the best coverage we can on politics and power. prospect.org/donate
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David Dayen
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This is a classic Warren story, there are a dozen more like it, involving outside-inside strategies to get things done. You don't hear about them until years later, but I might as well mention a couple. buzzfeednews.com/article/mollyh…
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So I'm not sure I totally agree with @ewarren about the precarity of the economy. medium.com/@teamwarren/th…
I've been looking at leveraged loans for a long time. The sector just isn't as large as the mortgage market, and if anything will be an accelerant of a crisis happening somewhere else in the economy.
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Let me explain what's going on with this story, because it's quite remarkable. inthesetimes.com/article/21850/…
Amazon has long been accused of predatory pricing: selling below cost to attract market share, only to turn it around when it became a monopoly. But this is extremely difficult to prove in court.
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