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Recovery Denied
By John Miller | June 6
The Wall Street Journal editors must not be paying attention if they think that doubling down on the pro-rich, free-market
policies is going to restore prosperity for most people. Read more »
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The Big Casino
By Doug Orr | May 29
The problem with the stock market is not just that the casino game has been rigged to favor some gamblers—the problem is the existence of the casino in the first place. Read more »
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“Fewer!
Fewer!
Fewer!”
By Marjolein van der Veen | May 18
The politics of scapegoating: A step too far for the ultra-right in the Netherlands? Read more »
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The Era of Financialization, Pts 3 & 4
Special to the Web | May 1
Parts 3 and 4 of an interview with Costas Lapavitsas on the transformations at the “molecular” level of capitalism that are driving changes in economic performance and policy. Read more »
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The Gig Economy
By Gerald Friedman | April 23
From dog-walkers to college teachers, more and more U.S. workers hold “contingent” jobs. Read more »
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The Era of Financialization, Pts 1 & 2
Special to the Web | April 14
Parts 1 and 2 of an interview with Costas Lapavitsas on the transformations at the “molecular” level of capitalism that are driving changes in economic performance and policy. Read more »
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Pot Economics
By Dan Schneider | March 29
Now that marijuana has been legalized in two states and multiple other states are considering legalization or decriminalization, it’s high time for a lesson in pot economics. Read more »
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The TPP Would Deepen Income Divide
By Roger Bybee | March 14
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama’s Pacific “trade” deal, would severely intensify the very inequality the president decries. Read more »
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Assessing Those CBO Numbers
on the Minimum Wage
By Dean Baker | February 21
The CBO’s job-loss projections look like a setback for proponents of raising the minimum wage. A more serious assessment shows otherwise. Read more »
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How a Progressive Tax System Made Detroit a Powerhouse (and Could Again)
By Mason Gaffney and Polly Cleveland | August 9, 2013
During the city’s heyday from the 1890s through the 1940s, mayors and other civic leaders embraced the principles espoused by American economist Henry George, raising revenue through property taxes, rather than income or sales taxes. Read more »
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Banking on the Public
By Abby Scher | June 25, 2013
Going Postal, North Dakota, and other finance alternatives: A report-back from Public Banking 2013: Funding the New Economy. Read more »
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Taxing Cash Hoarders
By Alejandro Reuss | June 28, 2013
Nonfinancial corporations are stockpiling enormous sums of cash. A tax on this idle cash that would light a fire under corporations to invest it now. Read more »
Jobs, Deficits, and the Misguided Squabble over the Debt Ceiling.
By Tim Koechlin | August 5, 2011
Why the absurd squabble over the debt ceiling was distracting, destructive, and almost entirely beside the point. Read more »
Local Activism against Wal-Mart
Corporate Power, Wal-Mart and the Undermining of the Democratic Process
By Joel Harrison | April 13, 2011
Is the Wal-Mart Way the American Way?
By Martin J. Bennett | April 13, 2011
Why Is the Government Buying Long-Term Bonds?
By Alejandro Reuss | January 19, 2011
Questions and Answers on the Fed’s “QE2” program. Read more »
The Greatest Recovery, Part II
By Mark Provost | January 19, 2011
The Greatest Recovery in corporate profits and the Great Recession are two sides of the same coin. Read more »
The Greatest Recovery, Part I
By Mark Provost | December 16, 2010
The Greatest Recovery in corporate profits and the Great Recession are two sides of the same coin. Read more »
The Deficit Commission and Redistribution
By Darwin BondGraham | November 23, 2010
President Obama’s Deficit Commission has proposed a plan to rewrite the social contract, and to make the poor and middle class pay. Read more »
Laffer’s Latest Curve Ball
By John Miller | October 18, 2010
Arthur Laffer is peddling more of the same bad tax policy as he inveighs against Washington State Initiative 1098, which would tax state residents with incomes over $200,000. Read more »
The Jobs Crisis and the Art of Flexible Labor
By Dan DiMaggio | October 18, 2010
The bizarre experience that over 500 other workers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area had recently sheds some light on the growing expectations of absolute “flexibility” if you want a job. Read more »
Arctic Power...with Added Cleansers
By Maurice Dufour | February 17, 2010
All the negative press over Canada’s dirty oil is taking its toll on our national psyche. For years, our self-image as responsible environmental stewards had made us smug; now Canada’s just another carbon thug. Read more »
Haiti’s Fault Lines: Made in the U.S.A.
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly | February 4, 2010
Pace Pat Robertson, the devil had little to do with Haiti’s underdevelopment. Instead, the fingerprints of more mundane actors—France and later the United States—are all over the crime scene. Read more »
