Bill Tabb - Dollars & Sense

Some Elements of a Progressive International Trade Policy

There are other ways to organize U.S. international trade. The neoliberal free trade of recent decades and the trade restrictions of Trumpian tariffs are not the only options.

Arthur MacEwan Jul 9, 2025

Left Hook

No Matter How You Look at It, the Big Beautiful Bill is a Monstrosity

Here are three views of the bill's horrific distributional consequences.

John Miller Jul 7, 2025

Left Hook

What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?

As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.

Robert Pollin Jul 1, 2025

Bill Tabb teaches economics at Queens College and is the author, most recently, of Reconstructing Political Economy.

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Issue 227

Japanese Bank Mergers - Bigger, Not Better

Japan will boast the largest bank in the world once the merger of three of its already very large — but

Bill Tabb Jan 1, 2000