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What’s Crypto Good For? Corruption, Exploitation, and Billions for Insiders

As with the subprime lending crisis, crypto appears to be more of an example of predatory inclusion than enhancing financial access.

Gerald Epstein Aug 21, 2025

July/August 2025

The Labor Education That Workers Need Most

What labor education is and how it matters to the current moment.

Helena Worthen Aug 20, 2025

Left Hook Economics

How the Rich Got Richer

As more and more pass-through business income goes to the super-rich, the income share of the top 1% doubles.

John Miller Aug 14, 2025

Issue 370: January/February 2024

Inequality and Climate Change

Arthur Macewan

The power of the rich is making it even harder to halt climate change than it has to be. | Read more »
A Country of Mini-Millionaires?

John Miller

The Wall Street Journal’s rosy take on the latest Federal Reserve wealth report. | Read more »
Union Democracy Stands Up

Barry Eidlin

Workers’ struggles will determine how the latest round of automation will affect labor. | Read more »

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The Heavy, Unequal Burden of Student Debt

Nick French

The federal student loan payment restart is inflicting needless pain on millions of Americans. | Order this issue or subscribe.
Ruined Rivers

Mir Aiyaz

The Hidden Crisis of Unchecked Mining in Kashmir | Order this issue or subscribe.

the regulars

editors’ note We Have the Power—How Will We Use It?
the short run
cartoon “The Raises They Want Are Literally Impossible!”
making sense Wealth, Inequality, and All That
50th-anniversary reprint The Sound of Popular Economics
economy in numbers The Elimination of the Expanded Child Tax Credit
dr. dollar Inequality and Climate Change