The features of the bill that are likely to help ordinary people were catchy and easy to understand—reduced taxes on tips and overtime pay and a higher standard deduction for the elderly on income taxes. Yet these projected revenue losses are tiny compared to those incurred by the super rich.

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.

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Financial Times on 'The Future of Capitalism'

D&S Admin Mar 9, 2009

FT launches this new series today. The first day’s pieces dutifully concede that neoliberal policies with respect to the financial sector have failed—but the questioning doesn't go too much deeper so far...

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