Mike Prokosch - Dollars & Sense

Interview: The Consumer Credit Oligopoly

An interview with Rob Larson

Rob Larson Nov 28, 2025

November/December 2025

Discredited

The Ham-fisted Tyranny of the Credit Agency Oligopoly

Rob Larson Nov 24, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Mamdani, Affordability, and Inequality

The costs of housing, food, childcare, and transportation are one side of the affordability issue, the side where Mamdani might be able to have a direct impact.

Arthur MacEwan Nov 21, 2025

Mike Prokosch is a carpenter and popular economics educator in Boston. He is also a member of the Dollars & Sense board.

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Charlie Chaplin’s character the Tramp gets caught in the gears of the factory where he works in Chaplin’s 1936 film “Modern Times.” Credit: Modern Times © Roy Export SAS.

May/June 2025

Short Staffing

Deliberately hiring too few people—always one of employers’ favorite methods of work intensification—is reaching new extremes.

Mike Prokosch May 15, 2025