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An article series by
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From the Dollars & Sense blog:

The New Democrats' Addiction to Austerity Will Not Die | January 17
The Public Editor Shows the NYT's Contempt for Workers | December 30
The Federal Reserve Raising Interest Rates Is Unwelcome and Unnecessary | December 17
The Democratic Party's “Centrist” Leaders Remain Clueless | December 12
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs -- Not Austerity | December 6

Recent posts»

What Trump Can and Can’t
Do to Immigrants

DAVID BACON | January 20

Understanding how the economic system Trump and his appointees will operate in constrains immigration policy. Read more »
It Can Happen Here

DAVID M. KOTZ | January 12

The rise of a right-wing nationalist regime in the United States is now a realistic possibility.
Read more »
Top Eleven D&S Graphs of 2016

DOLLARS & SENSE | December 30

From Sanders’ proposals to global private equity to stock buybacks, the best graphs (and scariest data) of 2016. With a nod to Nigel Tufnel, we’re cranking it up to eleven! Read more »
Trump and National Neoliberalism

SASHA BREGER BUSH | December 18

Trump’s ascendance means the end of globalism—but not of neoliberalism.
Read more »
Prospects for the Spanish Left

WILLIAM SAAS, JORGE AMAR, DAVID GLOTZER,
AND SCOTT FERGUSON | December 6

What answer does Podemos have for austerity? Read more »
Green State America

FRANK ACKERMAN | November 22

How to keep America’s promises and protect the climate despite Trump’s climate-change denialism.
Read more »
Nativism:
As American as (Rotten) Apple Pie

GERALD FRIEDMAN | November 8

Trumpism is part of a long history of anti-immigrant sentiment, from Benjamin Franklin to the Know Nothings to the KKK. Read more »
Taxing the Wealthy
and the Art of Sophistry

JOHN MILLER | November 2

Comparing the Clinton and Trump Tax Plans Read more »
All Tricks, No Treat in Candy Strike

DAN DIMAGGIO | October 30

Workers at Bethlehem, Penn. candy company that makes Peeps and Hot Tamales are back at work, without a contract. Read more »
European Social Democracy
and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis

ALEJANDRO REUSS | October 15

Part 2: The Rise of the Third Way Read more »
Artificial Intelligence and Unemployment

ARTHUR MACEWAN | September 29

Dear Dr. Dollar: Will artificial intelligence and the application of robotics to production really lead to massive job loss? Read more »

Special to the Web:

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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »

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 »

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

Why Is the Government Buying Long-Term Bonds?

Alejandro Reuss | January 19, 2011

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

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