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Breaking down the day's financial and business news.

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[Berkeley Labor Center @UCBLaborCenter]

This week, Uber & Lyft unveiled their ballot initiative to undo historic worker protections in AB5. Despite the initiative's claims, we found that the initiative guarantees only $5.64 an hour: https://t.co/FjAc77oPyN

[Lauren Kaori Gurley @LaurenKGurley]

New in tech organizing: Workers at Tableau walked off the job this week over the company's ties to ICE after a year of internal organizing. I spoke to workers & dug thru federal records. Turns out DHS has spent millions on Tableau software in 2019 alone.
https://t.co/lOFyIlR4Ot

[Lisa Abramowicz @lisaabramowicz1]

U.S. farm bankruptcies in September surged 24% to the highest since 2011. https://t.co/nW5Q8re9qc

[RT America @RT_America]

Fed Slashes Rates & Consumer Safety in Crypto

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Order!

Today John Bercow (Speaker of the House of Commons) stands down after 10 years in the chair.

Will you miss him?

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TFW you might agree w/ Thomas Friedman ... https://t.co/7rvA6lUEsO

[RT America @RT_America]

Pacific Trade Outlook & Fed Cuts Imminent?

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[Richard D. Wolff @profwolff]

As US capitalism worsens inequality, needed public services - like firefighting when global warming whips us wildfires - get cut. So the rich buy private firefighting.
Inequality bitterly divides society.
#HowCapitalismWorks

https://t.co/vFyhRYxoSK

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

But how will they pay for it

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

.@RepRichardNeal hosted a raucous birthday party for AIG (!) in the actual Ways and Means committee room https://t.co/cBfbjRtns4

[Luke Savage @LukewSavage]

The Onion does better labour reporting than most newspapers https://t.co/HCgq5djI0n

[Jacobin @jacobin]

World-renowned scholar Walden Bello on the financialization of the Chinese economy, the middle-class roots of far-right movements, and the urgent need for a radical alternative to capitalism’s crises. https://t.co/tO9ztEk178

[RT America @RT_America]

Brexit’s New Breakthrough & FinTech Faces Uncertainty

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https://t.co/YV1jeiYX7q

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Via @NACLA: Two Argentine politics experts break down Sunday's election, which ended the narrative of the Left's demise in Latin America as Kirchner returns to power. https://t.co/P16mgKyHns

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"Update 07/19/2019: This article has amended the glaring oversight that Jeffrey Epstein was convicted in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from an underage woman. Epstein has recently been rearrested on federal charges for sex trafficking. [...]" https://t.co/Ecg62PWRFk

[Reuters Business @ReutersBiz]

Zimbabwe central bank to introduce new dollar note and coins https://t.co/WZg9YVNcK1

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[MarketWatch @MarketWatch]

For millennials, socialism and communism are hot, capitalism is not
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