Les Leopold: Capitalism Runs Wild: A Rant
By Les Leopold / Substack They’ll stone you when you’re at the breakfast table.They’ll stone you when you are young and able.They’ll stone you when you’re tryin’ to make a…
Come on Joe: Stop John Deere from Shipping Jobs to Mexico
By Les Leopold / Substack The greed of the John Deere company is giving President Biden the perfect opportunity to win back working-class voters. All he needs to do is…
Vivisection of the Vibe-Recession
Economists just don't get why we don't trust the government or them!
Are Republicans the Party of the Working Class?
Job instability, not racial resentment, is the key to understanding the decline of the working-class Democratic vote. But there's a way to turn things around.
Why Wall Street Wants You to Fear AI
By Les Leopold / Substack Goldman Sachs, the infamous Wall Street “vampire squid” (aptly so dubbed by Matt Taibbi), wants to scare the hell out of us. It reports that…
Outrage by White Rural Rage
By Les Leopold / Substack I don’t like to slam books, especially those ahead of mine on the best seller list. It might seem like petty jealousy. But one recent…
Why Biden Is Getting His Butt Kicked on the Economy
Do Robert Reich and Paul Krugman have it wrong?
The Chris Hedges Report: Billionaires Are Striking Back Against Workers
A legal challenge to abolish the NLRB is just the most obvious attempt by the ruling class to squash the rise of working class militancy in the US.
Memo to Shawn Fain: Please Launch Workers United Against Mass Layoffs
By Les Leopold / Substack Dear Brother Fain, It’s time for a new organization to protect working people from the plague of mass layoffs. Let’s call it, for now, Workers…
CHIPS Ahoy for Stock Buybacks R Us!
By Les Leopold / Substack Intel, the largest chip maker in America, with 2023 revenues of $54 billion, has just been awarded an $8.5 billion grant from the federal CHIPS…
Can you Slam Wall Street and Still Win an Election? Ask Sherrod Brown
Les Leopold shares the connections between his new book, "Wall Street's War on Workers" and an essay written by Senator Sherrod Brown.
Did Wall Street Just End the Class War?
By Les Leopold / Substack All workers can become capitalists, all workers can become rich! That’s the future of the economy according to the infamous Wall Street buyout firm, KKR,…
Wall Street Strikes Again With Mass Media Layoffs
There is one real solution to creating a modicum of job stability: Taming Wall Street’s greed.