Economics

“PATCO on Steroids”: Will Labor’s Response be Different Today?

Joe Allen April 18, 2025

Trump’s Tariff Policy is Costing the US Bigly

Dean Baker April 18, 2025

In Trade War With the US, China Holds a Lot More Cards Than Trump May Think − In Fact, It Might Have a Winning hand

Linggong Kong April 16, 2025

Are the Trumpistas Seeking To Shrink the IRS …or Actually Sink It?

Sam Pizzigati April 9, 2025

The Problem With Abundance

Kirsten  Stade April 2, 2025

Dismantling the IRS Only Helps Billionaire Tax Cheats

Chuck Collins April 1, 2025

Senator Whitehouse’s Climate Crisis/Property Insurance/RE Collapse Scenario

Robert Hunziker March 24, 2025

With all Eyes on Trump, Who has Time for ‘Old News’ Like Outrageous CEO Pay?

Sam Pizzigati March 19, 2025

Trump Tariffs and the Dollar as the World Reserve Currency

Dean Baker March 14, 2025

A Cruel Hoax: the Political Economy of Anti-immigration

Richard D. Wolff February 28, 2025

The New Plutocracy

David Schultz February 20, 2025

Eight Ways Trump Can Tank the Economy

Dean Baker February 20, 2025

Trump’s Reign of Cruelty

Henry Giroux February 17, 2025

Trump Claims He’s on the Side of the Working Class. Really?

Bernie Sanders February 10, 2025

America’s Dangerous Movement Toward Oligarchy, Authoritarianism and Kleptocracy

Bernie Sanders February 4, 2025

Trump’s Taxes (Tariffs) on Imports and Sales Taxes on Stocks (FTT)

Dean Baker January 29, 2025

Does a Roaring Twenties Boom Now Beckon?

Sam Pizzigati January 28, 2025

Trump’s Balance-of-Payments War on Mexico, and the Whole World

Michael Hudson January 27, 2025

Corporations and Billionaires Flooded the Trump Inauguration With Cash

Craig Holman January 23, 2025

Biden: Clemency for Charles Littlejohn Now

Ari Paul January 15, 2025

A Note on Trade and Inequality

Dean Baker December 25, 2024

Political Economy Contradictions as We Lurch Into 2025

Richard D. Wolff December 23, 2024

Ghastly Glimpses of America’s Most Rich-People-Friendly Year

Sam Pizzigati December 20, 2024

Corporate Income Tax Collections Rise When They are Not Voluntary

Dean Baker December 13, 2024

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