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Fighting Climate Change in Portlandia

Not only is failure not an option, those fighting to avert cataclysmic climate change have achieved important successes worthy of celebrating.

Robin Hahnel Feb 20, 2026

March/April 2026

The Bad Romance of Extractive Industry

A Valentine's Day Post from Dollars & Sense

Zoe Sherman Feb 14, 2026

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Even the Wall Street Journal Knows!

Inequality is getting so bad even conservatives have started to acknowledge it. But that doesn't mean they'll do anything serious to make it better.

John Miller Feb 13, 2026

January/February 2022

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

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editors’ note Finance and Class
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cartoon Capitalism Is Doomed!
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