Sunday Reading

By Aaron BadyNovember 18, 2012

The Age of Greed and the Sabotage of Regulation.
401(k) fee-for-all.
2-tier 1st Amendment; your cell phones died for Verizon's freedom.
Disability history.
Banks won't tell you their fees; AT&T won't tell you data usage measure.
WalMart won't tell workers next week's hours; prevalent precarity.
Algorithmic serfdom; algo-driven speech; algo trading ban; mega-trades.
Keep on trucking: 14 hours on, 10 hours off; the Bush fils legacy, updated forfracking.
The average million-dollar-plus household receives almost $800,000 in investment income.
52 Shades of Greed.

Notes on the "electoral victory" of Prop 30: After the passage of Prop 30, Cal State admins propose three new ugly, anti-student fees; The UC Regents' budget and the trouble with Prop 30; Prop 30 funds for UC will go to Wall Street; and the full report on which that last piece is based, "Swapping our future: How students and taxpayers are funding risky UC borrowing and Wall Street profits"
"Large increases in public funding are the only alternative to big tuition hikes — if not next year then the year after"
UC Irvine student government unanimously passes divestment bill challenging Israel's human rights abuses
Your parents took out loans for your education and now they're broke
A bailout of the people by the people -- will it work?
Interview with Stefano Harney and Fred Moten: Studying through the undercommons
Political racism in the age of Obama
Wave of evictions leads to homeless crisis in Spain
Paula Broadwell, the Daily Show, and the active forgetting of domicide