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Trump Tariffs and Stagflation: Why TACO is the Least Bad Option

The first obvious step right now for fighting stagflation is for Trump to dump his tariff policies.

Robert Pollin Aug 26, 2025

Left Hook Economics

What’s Crypto Good For? Corruption, Exploitation, and Billions for Insiders

As with the subprime lending crisis, crypto appears to be more of an example of predatory inclusion than enhancing financial access.

Gerald Epstein Aug 21, 2025

July/August 2025

The Labor Education That Workers Need Most

What labor education is and how it matters to the current moment.

Helena Worthen Aug 20, 2025

Issue 358: January/February 2022

Leveraging Financial Markets for Social Justice

Doug Orr

Is divestment effective? | Read more »
Financialization and Inequality

Arthur Macewan

Dear Dr. Dollar: Is financialization responsible for the great increase in economic inequality of recent decades in the United States? | Read more »
Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us

Hadas Thier

Deflating the Egalitarian Fantasies of Digital Currencies | Read more »
The Lure of “Democratizing” Finance

John Summa

Wall Street’s latest gimmick hooks a young, desperate, and gullible crowd. | Read more »
The Fed and the Racial Wealth Gap

John Miller

Will a Fed racial equality mandate improve monetary policy? | Read more »

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From Grain Futures to the Great Financial Crisis and Beyond

Bill Barclay

A Primer on Financial Derivatives | Order this issue or subscribe.

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