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September/October 2026

The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis

Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929.

Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray Sep 1, 2026

Metal of the Past, Metal of the Future

Copper, the first metal worked by humans, will be crucial to decarbonization, and could be the path to a Chinese Century.

Bill Barclay Aug 29, 2026

Monthly Jobs Analysis

The Latest Job Calamity—Mostly Home-Made

The Latest Unemployment Report from the National Jobs for All Network

Frank Stricker Aug 26, 2026

May/June 2019

May/June 2019

The Optimal Tax

John Miller

Mainstream economics supports a 70% top income tax rate (or higher). | Read more »
The Rocket Science of Sanitation

Abhilasha Srivastava

Understanding the plight of the Indian workers who are not considered workers. | Read more »
Why Is the Economy Doing So Well?

Arthur Macewan

First we should ask: Has the U.S. economy really been doing so well? | Read more »
Traditional Measures of Unemployment Are Missing the Mark

Mark Paul

Puzzling through why, despite low unemployment, significant wage increases remain elusive. | Read more »

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Surviving Academia and
Performing Sex Work

Jenny Heineman

A Look at Labor under Neoliberalism

Beyond the Myth and Through the Mexican Labyrinth

James M. Cypher and Mateo Crossa

Labor under the “New NAFTA,” the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Agreement |

the regulars

editor’s note Labor and Ideology
the short run
comment Shop & Stop Victory
in review James Bloodworth, Hired, and Heike Geissler, Seasonal Associate
economy in numbers State of the Unions
45th anniversary reprints From March 1984: Target—Labor’s Elite