March/April 2021

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.

Libor Rigging Redux

John Summa

Was there a third dimension to the Libor scandal? | Read more »
Pandemic Mail

Christy Pottroff

Reimagining the role of the USPS during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic by looking to the past. | Read more »
Free to Lose

John Miller

Selling out workers and retirees to their financial advisors. | Read more »
Caring by the Dollar

Bill Barclay

Nursing Homes, Private Equity, and Covid-19 | Read more »
Rolling Up the Welcome Mat at the Door to the Promised Land

Interview with Ellora Derenoncourt

The Economic History of the Great Migration and Its Aftermath | Read more »
Why Is Student Debt Cancelation a Big Deal?

Arthur Macewan

Dear Dr. Dollar: I’ve noticed news reports about the possible cancellation of student debt. Why has this become such a big deal recently? | Read more »

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars

editor’s note In the News
the short run
in review L. Hunter Lovins, Stewart Wallis, AndersWijkman, and John Fullerton, A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life; Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist; Erik Olin Wright, How to Be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century
the economy in numbers The High Costs and Low Quality of U.S. Health Care

The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis

Metal of the Past, Metal of the Future

The Latest Job Calamity—Mostly Home-Made

March/April 2021

Available only in the print edition:

the regulars