MAY DAY… (once upon a time…a folk festival of happy liberation from Winter’s woes…) We doubt there are any folks around today who could recall what May Day was originally all about. That is, when once upon a time it
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HOW FREE IS OUR MARKET ECONOMY…AND WHAT’S OUR LABOR WORTH? (…it depends on how we define –free- and who gets to decide what our labor is worth) The current anxiety over when the Fed will decide about raising interest rates
BANGLADESH… (adding our contribution to making it one of the saddest places on Earth..) This latest disaster in Bangladesh, where a building full of clothing manufacturing workers collapsed upon itself, killing hundreds, and still counting, while rescuers frantically try to