November/December 2010

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

How Federal Reserve policies, the recession they triggered, and broader political and economic changes weakened workers’ power and helped usher in an era of extreme inequality.

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.

Update on Mortgage Lending Discrimination

By Jim Campen

After a disastrous detour, we’re back where we started. Read more »
Deficits: Real Issue, Phony Debates

By Rick Wolff

What’s at stake on either side of the class divide. Read more »
Underwater

By Rob Larson

Profits and pay are sky-high, even as bad loans are sinking the megabanks. Read more »
That Hurt! Let’s Do It Again.

By John Miller

Responding to the Journal’s nostalgia for the Reagan tax-cuts. Read more »

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The Economics and Politics of Depropriation in the Other Colombia

By Patricia Rodriguez

In this Caribbean region of Colombia, to talk of displacement of communities by corporations does not do justice to the reality; rather, locals speak of depropriation, or the takeover of property and livelihoods with complete impunity. | Order this issue or subscribe.

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The Political Economy of Palestine