Saurav Sarkar - 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

Saurav Sarkar is an independent writer based in the New York area. Follow his writing at sauravsarkar.com or on Twitter @sauravthewriter.

3 articles

September/October 2024

Is the World Cup Worth It?

The 2026 tournament will mean big money—but for whom?

Saurav Sarkar Sep 2, 2024

The D&S Debrief

Interview on the Economics of Hosting the World Cup

An interview with Saurav Sarkar, author of "Is the World Cup Worth It?" from the September/October 2024

Saurav Sarkar Sep 1, 2024

January/February 2023

Battling Starbucks

How Starbucks Workers United is challenging the coffee empire—and how the empire is striking back.

Saurav Sarkar Jan 1, 2023