Trade, Tariffs, and Soybeans

Trump has consistently claimed that exporters, those countries who are “ripping us off,” are paying the tariffs. However, the actual data tell a different story.

Bill Barclay Nov 6, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Wage Stagnation vs. Living Wages for U.S. Workers Today

Far from earning living wages, most U.S. workers have experienced wage stagnation since the 1970s--a trend largely obscured by political rhetoric and misinformation.

Robert Pollin Nov 3, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Inflation Haunting Halloween

A specter is haunting Halloween—the specter of inflation.

John Miller Oct 31, 2025

March/April 2018

Issue 335

Modern Money

Robert Hockett

A Legal, Functional, and Historical Primer on Modern Monetary Theory Read more »
Rising Asset Bubbles Distort the Industrial Base

Marie Christine Duggan

Part 2 of a Series on Deindustrialization in Keene, N.H. Read more »
12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor

Noah Berlatsky

If the essence of neoliberalism is an ideological faith in the righteous virtue of individual choice, then self-help books are the true heirs of Milton Friedman. Read more »
Growing Together, Flying Apart

Gerald Friedman

Regional Disparities in American Politics and Economics Read more »

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the regulars

editor’s note This Is Your Economy on Finance
the short run
up against the Wall Street Journal The Stock Market and Class Conflict
ask dr. dollar What are the economic costs of Puerto Rico’s crisis?