Economics

Trump’s Next HUD Secretary Would Have a Lot to do to Address the History of Racist Housing Policy – and Trump’s Comments and History Suggest That’s Unlikely

Colin Gordon December 3, 2024

The Pride Paradox

Christoph Irmscher December 2, 2024

Deconstructing State Capitalism

David S. D’Amato November 15, 2024

Extensive Polls Find Americans Support Taxing the Wealthy

Hibba Meraay November 15, 2024

The NYT Version of the Big Lie: Technology Created Inequality

Dean Baker November 12, 2024

One Person, One Vote, One Joke…on Democracy

Sam Pizzigati November 5, 2024

Housing Discrimination is a Public Health Disaster

George Lipsitz October 31, 2024

A Win for the Poor

Eve Ottenberg October 25, 2024

The World Bank Mired in Contradictions About Poverty

Eric Toussaint October 25, 2024

What Ideas From the Paleolithic Are Still With Us in the Modern World?

Jan Ritch-Frel – Michael Hudson October 24, 2024

How Billionaire Investors Are Disrupting the U.S. Housing Market

Chuck Collins October 24, 2024

The Biden-Harris Job Boom

Dean Baker October 23, 2024

Tariffs and Government-Granted Patent Monopolies: Bad and “Good” Forms of Protectionism

Dean Baker October 9, 2024

A New Permanent Affordable Housing Proposal

Omar Ocampo October 2, 2024

The Only Real Shortcut to Long-Term Security: Greater Equality

Sam Pizzigati October 1, 2024

The Economy After GDP Revisions

Dean Baker October 1, 2024

The Decline of the U.S. Empire: Where Is It Taking Us All?

Richard D. Wolff September 9, 2024

Surprise: Doctors and TV Viewers LIKE Ask-Your-Doctor Ads

Martha Rosenberg August 28, 2024

Why Poverty Reduction Under Capitalism is a Myth

Richard D. Wolff August 27, 2024

A World Without Artworks That Auction Off for $80 Million?

Sam Pizzigati August 26, 2024

The Best Families: Enduring Ruling-class Alibis

Rob Larson August 22, 2024

Today’s Young Mega-Millionaires Just Want to Have Fun

Sam Pizzigati August 20, 2024

Capitalism, Mass Anger and the 2024 Elections

Richard D. Wolff August 14, 2024

Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom

Richard D. Wolff August 9, 2024

Manufacturing Jobs: Unions Made Them Good, Not the Factories

Dean Baker August 8, 2024

From the UK, a New Reminder Why Inequality Must Go

Sam Pizzigati July 30, 2024

Who’s a Bigger Threat to Democracy—Immigrants, or Billionaires?

Sonali Kolhatkar July 23, 2024

The Astonishing Success of the Wealthy at Accumulating More Wealth

Rick Baum July 19, 2024

Tariffs Don’t Protect Jobs. Don’t Be Fooled.

Richard D. Wolff July 12, 2024

A Practical Prescription for Taxing Our World’s Richest

Sam Pizzigati July 2, 2024

Don’t Buy The Tariff Lie

Thomas Knapp June 24, 2024

CPI Without Owner’s Equivalent Rent Has Been at Fed Target for a Year

Dean Baker June 17, 2024

Newsflash:  Inequality in Neoliberal America

David Schultz May 30, 2024

From Massachusetts, Some Tax-the-Rich Inspiration

Sam Pizzigati May 28, 2024

The Toughest Job Today’s Richest Ever Face?

Sam Pizzigati May 20, 2024

How the UAW Could Change the South

Eve Ottenberg May 10, 2024

The Well-Heeled and Our Personal Well-Being

Sam Pizzigati May 7, 2024

Are the Flat Tax Folks Winning…or Have They Already Won?

Sam Pizzigati April 23, 2024

The Strike of the Longshoremen: Seattle 1934

Cal Winslow April 22, 2024

Mass Layoffs Have Our Rich Thriving … and Workers Writhing

Sam Pizzigati April 16, 2024

The March CPI, the Inflation Picture, and the Fed

Dean Baker April 16, 2024

A Class Analysis of the Trump-Biden Rerun

Richard D. Wolff April 12, 2024

We Need Housing, Not Hand Cuffs

Farrah Hassen April 12, 2024

To Trim Our Richest Down to Democratic Size, We Need to Think Big

Sam Pizzigati April 11, 2024

Do We Need to Have a Cold War With China?

Dean Baker April 4, 2024

Shouldn’t Every American Enjoy the Luxury of a Roof?

Sam Pizzigati April 2, 2024

Germany as Collateral Damage in America’s New Cold War

Michael Hudson April 1, 2024

Corporate Profiteering Destroyed the Baltimore Bridge

Sonali Kolhatkar April 1, 2024

Pessimism of the Intellect, Pessimism of the Will 

Scott Remer March 15, 2024

The Great Unwinding

Liz Theoharis March 13, 2024