The Economy Under Trump: Business Optimism Combined with Inequality
Gerald Epstein dissects the Trump Administration happy talk about the state of the economy.
Read more...Gerald Epstein dissects the Trump Administration happy talk about the state of the economy.
Read more...Thomas Frank on what’s the matter with America.
Read more...A data dive shows that the student loan business is at least as bad as you think it is.
Read more...A conversation with Chris Hedges about his apocalyptic new book America: The Farewell Tour (Simon & Schuster, August 2018).
Read more...Why the Fed is, rather late in the game, concerned about monopsony power.
Read more...Life along Woonsquatucket, and what “a screw loose” really means.
Read more...Debunking the petrodollar myth.
Read more...Bolstering, rather than cutting, Social Security is the solution to America’s retirement train wreck.
Read more...Defects in Sanders’ “plan to have a plan” to tax Amazon, and how to cure them.
Read more...To understand labor productivity—and growing inequality—you have to look at the “dual economy”
Read more...Stepping back to look at the Brexit trajectory.
Read more...Is the problem with the economy the amount of stultifying work, or that too much work is really about more and more aggressive competition for income?
Read more...Strengths, weaknesses, and context of Elizabeth Warren’s “Accountable Capitalism Act”
Read more...In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future.
Read more...Why shareholders are getting a raw deal out of the misguided corporate fixation on “maximizing shareholder value,” and Elizabeth Warren’s new bill is therefore good for them.
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