Economics

Real and Fake Antidotes to Trump’s Latest Tariffs, Seen From South Africa

Patrick Bond July 15, 2025

Trump’s Tariffs and Price Gouging Restaurants

Dean Baker July 10, 2025

Small Businesses in Trump’s Crosshairs

Seth Sandronsky June 6, 2025

The Amazing Story About AIDS in Africa that Elon Musk’s Chainsaw Killed

Dean Baker June 5, 2025

Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, I’m a Neoliberal: The Invisible Men

Ed Rampell June 1, 2025

Six Ways Trump’s Budget Will Hurt Rural America

Michael Chameides May 26, 2025

Trading Partners and Trump’s Tariffs: Interviewing Intan Suwandi

Seth Sandronsky May 23, 2025

Donald Trump Versus Cheating Penguins

Dean Baker May 7, 2025

Fighting Oligarchy: The Idle Rich and the Vampire Economy

David S. D’Amato May 2, 2025

The Great Gatsby at 100: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Class Consciousness Masterpiece 

Jonah Raskin May 2, 2025

“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