Economics

Solidarity Strikes and Taft-Hartley’s Long Shadow

Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Fortune is a Flashing Warning Light for Democracy

Abundance Jumps the Shark

How Public Benefit Claims Work…and Why Their Assumptions Matter

Does US AI Depend on Big Companies Throwing Money in the Toilet? The Chinese Competition

The Cruelty and Futility of Criminalizing the Homeless

US-Instigated Humanitarian Crisis Forces Cuba to Adopt Major Economic Changes

The Left and Breaching Capitalism’s Digital Fortress

GOP Claims of “Massive Fraud” Imply the Musk is a Moron

The Mixed Legacy of Alan Greenspan

Wealth and the Political Power of Billionaires

SpaceX: Elon Musk’s Greatest Scam? Mr. Arithmetic Weighs In

The $2.13 Subminimum Wage: When is Enough Enough?

The Social Security Shortfall and Trump’s Big Military Budget

Welcome to Mexico, World Cup Fans, a Paradise for Soccer and Inequality

The AI Bubble Monitor: The Lay of the Land

The Myth of the K-Shaped Economy

The Criminalization of Gleaning

Bursting the AI Bubble: the Fed Could End the “Who Could’ve Known” Defense

Why American Workers Should Welcome Chinese Investments

Suspending the Gas Tax Won’t Help

Waiting for the AI Bubble to Burst: Great Collapses of the Past

The 2026 World Financial Crisis

Idiot Speak: Elon Musk’s Plans for Gutting Social Security and a Universal High Income

Import Prices Soar: Trump Says Exporters Too Low IQ to Eat the Tariffs

Inflation, Tariffs and War

The Perils of Hyperglobalization and a Post-Neoliberal World

We Need a Guns and Butter Debate Over the Costs of the Iran War

Lessons for Everyone from the Irish Farmer Protests

Will Gravity Pull Down the AI Bubble?

We Don’t Need Billionaires, and We Can Structure the Market So We Don’t Have Them

Are Republicans Killing You?

Inflation is a Process

How to Make Housing More Affordable

Public Education, Racial Inequality and the Struggle for Democracy: an Interview With Jonathan Kozol

The News on Prices and Consumption is Not Good

Private Equity Gets the Green Light to Raid Workers’ Retirement Accounts

The Existential Crisis of Mainstream Economics

Private Equity Killed My Thrift Store

Trump’s 2026 SOTU Speech: Economic Obfuscation and Political Theater

Trump’s Politics and a Declining US Capitalism in 2026

Trump’s Incompetence Left of Thousands in Red States Without Power

Is Trump’s Pledge to Rein in Private Equity for Real?

Finance, Not Trade, Runs the Global Economy

Imagining the End of Capitalism

Once They Fed the World, Now American Farmers Are on the Brink, With Declining Federal Aid

Exporters Aren’t Eating the Tariffs, We Are

The Billionaires and the November Elections

A Gradual Weakening of the Economy

Private Equity in the Doldrums and Out of Favor With Some Institutional Investors