Rand Wilson - Dollars & Sense

The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis

Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929.

Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray Sep 1, 2026

Metal of the Past, Metal of the Future

Copper, the first metal worked by humans, will be crucial to decarbonization, and could be the path to a Chinese Century.

Bill Barclay Aug 29, 2026

Monthly Jobs Analysis

The Latest Job Calamity—Mostly Home-Made

The Latest Unemployment Report from the National Jobs for All Network

Frank Stricker Aug 26, 2026

Rand Wilson is on the staff of SEIU Local 888 in Boston. He was the founding director of Massachusetts Jobs with Justice and has been active in community-labor coalition building for more than thirty

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September/October 2014

"Just Cause" and the Attack on Job Security

Is teacher tenure obsolete? Or is it the kind of policy that should protect all workers?

Rand Wilson Sep 1, 2014