Robert Pollin critiques the Biden climate plan for over-relying on unproven carbon capture, investing too little in solar and wind, and treating China as a rival.
Read more...Why an analysis that argues that post-Rana Plaza interventions hurt workers in the long run looks shoddy.
Read more...More forecasts on the future of supply chains.
Read more...A mysterious course change, a birthday party, oil on the beaches, and a billion dollars in compensation (maybe).
Read more...Debunking Bernanke’s pet excuse for the global financial crisis, the savings glut hypothesis, which of course exculpates the Fed.
Read more...Even Covid-19 can have a silver lining: industry supply chain breakage and relocalization initiatives are bringing some manufacturing back to the US.
Read more...Beware! The TPP is still skulking around, rebranded as the CPTPP. As Lambert says, “Kill it with fire”.
Read more...Why Taiwan could serve as a prototype for a tech proxy war.
Read more...After too many years of “Let them eat training,” a more practical answer to trade-induced job losses.
Read more...John Weeks was a leading critic of economic orthodoxy who dedicated his life to building a better world.
Read more...Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge
Read more...Unless we take drastic steps NOW- and stop allowing plastics pushers to set the agenda- plastics in the world’s oceans will triple in twenty years, by 2040.
Read more...Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.
Read more...Why the dollar is not losing its privileged status any time soon.
Read more...Birds continue to fly, according to new information released by the British Trust for Ornithology, untrammelled by COVID-19.
Read more...