Sanders lists demands for Clinton if he fails to get the nomination…and it includes demands like single payer that are so far from her current position that it is inconceivable that she will give them lip service.
Read more...Health care loans are the equivalent of mortgages for large health care expenses. What could go wrong?
Read more...After Wisconsin, the next round of primaries in concentrated in more affluent East Coast states, and Clinton does well with rich voters. Can Sanders make enough headway with them?
Read more...Rana Foroohar’s new book, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, addresses what Paul Ryan conveniently left out.
Read more...Rebellion watch: Why the natives will remain restless.
Read more...By linking immigration and trade, however crudely, Trump has exposed the broader paradox and inherent contradictions which lurk between the two.
Read more...How a former anchor is helping the billionaire-backed charter lobby misrepresent school privatization as “reform”.
Read more...A well-meaning effort to analyze rent-seeking goes off the rails.
Read more...Why do Democrats act like Republican wannabes with deficit scaremongering? Let us count the reasons: Wall Street, Pete Peterson, hatred of the poor…
Read more...Why the hidden health cost of the financial crisis will span decades.
Read more...Why Trump represents a recurring set of grievances in American politics, and elites are making a mistake in dismissing them.
Read more...Classical economics recognized the costs of rent extraction, excessive borrowing, and encouraging speculation over commerce. Ideologues have turned those lessons on their head.
Read more...Trump’s tax plan reveals that his economic populism is three-card Monte.
Read more...It should come as no surprise that the Peterson Institute has managed to model the impact of the TPP so that it does not increase unemployment.
Read more...Michael Hudson speaks with Justin Ritchie on his favorite topics, such as debt deflation, austerity, classical economists on rentiers, and the coming financial cold war.
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