Economics

Is a ‘Mayday!’ Now Looming for Our Billionaire Class?

Sam Pizzigati November 7, 2023

Economy Adds 150,000 Jobs in October, as Unemployment Edges Up to 3.9 Percent

Dean Baker November 6, 2023

What Jurors Learned at the SBF Trial on Friday

JoAnn Wypijewski October 30, 2023

Roaming Charges: That Oceanic Feeling

Jeffrey St. Clair October 27, 2023

Why Capitalism Cannot Finally Repress Socialism

Richard D. Wolff October 27, 2023

Food and Housing Costs Still Shoot Through the Roof

Eve Ottenberg October 27, 2023

Amid Discouraging Inequality Data, Some Signs of Hope

Sam Pizzigati October 24, 2023

Another Unintended Consequence of Sanctions: Migration

Eve Ottenberg October 20, 2023

G7 Versus BRICS: Power Struggles are Not Class Struggles

Richard D. Wolff October 19, 2023

Share the Wealth vs. Waste the Wealth

Sam Pizzigati October 17, 2023

Roaming Charges: Gaza Without Mercy

Jeffrey St. Clair October 13, 2023

IMF Showdown with China in Morocco

Michael Hudson October 13, 2023

Putting Ukraine Spending in Context

Dean Baker October 13, 2023

Private Yachts as Long as Football Fields

Sam Pizzigati October 11, 2023

Labor Education Starts in School

Sonali Kolhatkar October 10, 2023

Human Rights and Basic Income

Julie Wark October 8, 2023

The IMF and World Bank Talk Good Governance, But Walk With State-Capturers

Patrick Bond October 6, 2023

The Americans are Unleashing Monsters They Have No Idea How to Contain

Rob Urie October 6, 2023

The Price of Amazon Prime’s Business Model is Our Bodies

Denise Kohr October 6, 2023

The Big Three’s CEOs are Ripping Off Their Companies

Dean Baker October 6, 2023

Team Billionaire is Winning

Dean Baker October 5, 2023

Telecom Scandal: The Great Excise Tax Scam

David Rosen October 5, 2023

Why Striking Matters

Joe Allen October 4, 2023

How About a General Strike Against Dollar General?

Sam Pizzigati October 3, 2023

Private Jet Excess Doesn’t Justify Airport Expansion

Chuck Collins October 3, 2023

Kids Shouldn’t Have to Pay for School Lunches

Sonali Kolhatkar October 2, 2023

Washington Post Columnist Charles Lane Wants Autoworkers to Lose Their Jobs

Dean Baker October 2, 2023

Roaming Charges: Our Man in Jersey

Jeffrey St. Clair September 29, 2023

More at Stake for Auto Workers Than Wages and Benefits

Eve Ottenberg September 29, 2023

The United States in the World:  Making Sense of the Past Forty Years

Kim Scipes September 29, 2023

Bam Bam Bamboozled

Richard Rhames September 29, 2023

Faking a Strike

Rich Gibson September 27, 2023

Letter from London: Whose Round in the Square Mile?

Peter Bach September 27, 2023

AI: Profit vs. Freedom

Richard D. Wolff September 25, 2023

The UAW Strike: a Historic Fight to End 44 Years of Concession Bargaining

Jack Rasmus September 25, 2023

A Telling Tale of Two Press Lords

Sam Pizzigati September 25, 2023

Do People Really Expect Prices to Fall Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels?

Dean Baker September 25, 2023

Roaming Charges: Then They Walked

Jeffrey St. Clair September 22, 2023

What is 21st Century Fascism? The Dictatorship of Big Money

Richard Moser September 22, 2023

Obama’s Fake Concern for Autoworkers and the 2009 Bailout

Paul Street September 22, 2023

What Happened to the Left in the U.S. Labor Movement?

Joe Allen September 20, 2023

Shutdown Showdown

Tom H. Hastings September 19, 2023

Quick Thoughts on the UAW Strike

Dean Baker September 18, 2023

Ecosocialist Electricity? Just Transition or Neo-Luddite Revolution

Tony Martel September 18, 2023

Roaming Charges: Just Write a Check

Jeffrey St. Clair September 15, 2023

Bidenomics: Millions to Rebuild Maui, Billions for Ukraine

Eve Ottenberg September 15, 2023

Subsidized Employment Can Reduce Crime and Gun Violence Among Black Men

Algernon Austin September 15, 2023

Big Privatized Healthcare Fraud in Maine

W. T. Whitney September 14, 2023

A French Nuclear Fairy Tale

Axel Mayer September 14, 2023

The Tie That Truly Binds Grand Fortune and Great Talent

Sam Pizzigati September 13, 2023