Atlanta Journal Constitution: “They came in droves — high school students, retirees, young moms, the unemployed — all for a shot at a job at a new Wal-Mart on Memorial Drive in central DeKalb County. In just two days, and with virtually no advertising or even any signs, a staggering 7,500 people filled out applications for one of the 350 to 400
Just in case you might think that the curbing of free enterprise and individual rights is something new in American history, someone just sent me a headline from the New York Times dated May 30, 1918 . “Navy Man Indicted for Food Hoarding.” It reads as follows: Indictments were returned by a Federal Grand Jury here today against Medical Director
So says Mike Whitney , a “well respected freelance writer living in Washington state, interested in politics and economics from a libertarian perspective.” After discussing the housing bubble, capital consumption, and much else, Whitney concludes that prosperity will be restored only if we all start using things up: “America’s consumer culture is
Sometimes articles are so exasperating there is no sense in even attempting a response, but usually these don’t appear in the Wall Street Journal . Selection from Thomas Frank: What has overtaken America’s working people is not a natural disaster like “globalization,” and not even some kind of societal atavism in which countries regress
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