We're briefly coming back from hiatus to check in with an old friend and offer some thoughts on our breaking world.

Additional links/info below...

• Tom's Twitter page
• Gary Rivlin, The Intercept, "A Giant Pile of Money: How Wall Street Drove Public Pensions Into Crisis and Pocketed Billions in Fees"
• Eric Levitz, NY Mag, "American Capitalism Can No Longer Afford to Let Workers Retire in Dignity"
• Kathleen Elkins, CNBC, "A Brief History of the 401(k), Which Changed How Americans Retire"
• Peter F. Drucker, Harvard Business Review, "Reckoning with the Pension Fund Revolution"
• The Economic Policy Institute, "The Productivity Pay Gap"
• Kim Kelly, The Nation, "This Is a Horror Story: How Private Equity Vampires Are Killing Everything"

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Cletus Got Shot, "Don't Ya Blame Me, Son"