Issue 335: March/April 2018

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

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.

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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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?

Not Much Change Yet

Better Wages and Working Conditions: The Workers Will Come

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

Issue 335: March/April 2018

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars