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September/October 2016

Ampersand

By B. Deutsch | May 8th
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An article series by
Alejandro Reuss

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  Class Struggle by Other Means

  Chris Brooks | September 9

  Massive subsidies to Volkswagen in Tennessee shows how large corporations have bled state government funds in exchange for jobs. Read more »

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  “Equal Pay” Is Not So Equal

  JOHN MILLER | August 29

  Skeptics claim that the gender pay gap is a statistical artifact, and that women already get equal pay. But they’re wrong. Read more »

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  Are We Stuck in Economic Stagnation?

  ARTHUR MACEWAN | August 5

  Dear Dr. Dollar: Is it really true (or likely) that the U.S. and world economies are entering an extended period of slow economic growth? Read more »

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  European Social Democracy
  and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis

  ALEJANDRO REUSS | July 28

  Part 1: Monetary Union and Fiscal Disunion Read more »

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  A Clintonomics Sequel

  JOHN MILLER | July 7

  The original Clintonomics helped unleash the forces that brought about the financial meltdown and economic stagnation. Read more »

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  An Historical Perspective on Brexit

  ALEJANDRO REUSS | June 28

  Capitalist Internationalism, Reactionary Nationalism, and Socialist Internationalism Read more »

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  Enforcement of Puerto Rico’s Colonial Debt Pushes Out Young Workers

  JOSÉ LAGUARTA RAMÍREZ | June 22

  “Compromise” protects vulture funds, not Puerto Rico Read more »

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  Do Trade Agreements Foreclose Progressive Policy?

  ARTHUR MACEWAN | June 9

  Dear Dr. Dollar: Doesn’t theliberalization of U.S. economic policies abroad foreclose the possibility of progressive policies at home? Read more »

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  It Pays to Be White

  JEANNETTE WICKS-LIM | May 20

  Assessing how White people benefit from race-based economic inequality. | Read more »

• 

  The “Emerging” Economies Today

  AN INTERVIEW WITH JAYATI GHOSH | May 3

  What’s driving the slowdown in growth in China and other “emerging” economies, and what’s next for their development? | Read more »

Special to the Web:

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  Rosa Luxemburg and the Growth of the Labor Movement

  Gerald Friedman | January 15, 2016

  On the 97th anniversary of her death, an account of the importance of Luxemburg’s ideas for labor organizing. | Read more »

• 

  Debt and Development

  Alejandro Reuss | December 4, 2015

  If debt is a “trap” for developing countries, is there any way around it? | Read more »




• 

  Thirty Years of Farm Aid

  CAROLYN MUGAR, RHONDA PERRY, ROGER ALLISON, AND DAVID SENTER | July 14, 2015

  Reflections on Farm Aid by insiders as the organization supporting family farms celebrates its 30th anniversary. | Read more »

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  How a Progressive Tax System Made Detroit a Powerhouse (and Could Again)

  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

  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

  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 »



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  Jobs, Deficits, and the Misguided Squabble over the Debt Ceiling.

  Tim Koechlin | August 5, 2011

  Why the absurd squabble over the debt ceiling was distracting, destructive, and almost entirely beside the point. Read more »



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  Local Activism against Wal-Mart

  Corporate Power, Wal-Mart and the Undermining of the Democratic Process

  Joel Harrison | April 13, 2011

  Is the Wal-Mart Way the American Way?

  Martin J. Bennett | April 13, 2011



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  Why Is the Government Buying Long-Term Bonds?

  Alejandro Reuss | January 19, 2011

  Questions and Answers on the Fed’s “QE2” program. Read more »

Earlier web-only articles, mostly on the financial crisis, dating back to December 2007.