The claim that if wages grow, employment will shrink is as idiotic as claiming that if

plants grow, animals will shrink.

I mean, it's ludicrous.

Of course, that's not how the world works.

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And now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left podcast with clips today from

Counter-Spin, the David Pakman Show, the Tom Harman program, the Laura Flanders Show,

the Young Turks, and the other Washington.

They must have been high-fiving themselves at J.P. Morgan Chase's PR department, July

12th.

Chase's CEO, Jamie Diamond, was given prime space on the New York Times op-ed page to

declare that his bank was doing something about wage stagnation and income inequality

by giving thousands of employees a raise.

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