Bernie Sanders and Trump’s Pick for Health and Human Services Face Off on Right to Health Care
Sanders remains virtually alone among opposition leaders in being willing to take on Trump Administration policy positions.
Read more...Sanders remains virtually alone among opposition leaders in being willing to take on Trump Administration policy positions.
Read more...Black blasts Obama for prescribing austerity and presenting it as good for Americans when it is good only for financiers and the rich.
Read more...Young adults have had a very rough go and don’t have good reason to expect their economic condition to improve much.
Read more...Comparative data on immigration doesn’t support the tidy economists’ story that it good for growth…at least not recently.
Read more...Four Nobel Prize winners agree that rent-seeking is the biggest driver of rising inequality.
Read more...Yves here. This post makes a point at the end in passing about the value of multilateralism, even though the TPP was otherwise a very bad scheme on multiple levels. This serves as a reminder to mention something I’ve neglected to say. Trump’s plan to enter into bi-lateral trade deals (after supposedly tearing up extant […]
Read more...The oh-so-clever Trump plan to use tax credits to fund infrastructure spending means it will be too small and slow to provide any real boost.
Read more...Looking at why Trump won and the implications for his presidency.
Read more...“Robots are coming for your job” may be more scare talk than reality, but instilling that belief helps weaken labor bargaining power.
Read more...A deep dive into the sources of rich Americans’ wealth.
Read more...Why arguments against work are another manifestation of neoliberalism.
Read more...How you lose when AirBnB wins.
Read more...Economists hide behind specious claims of neutrality and efficiency to advocate policies that often have negative moral and social impact.
Read more...More on Uber’s questionable prospects and the dubious defenses offered by boosters, in this case, “Freakonomics” professor Stephen Levitt.
Read more...Pension, compensation, and tax rules exacerbate inequality, fueling a huge gap between retirement benefits for CEOS and ordinary workers.
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