January/February 2022

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

How Federal Reserve policies, the recession they triggered, and broader political and economic changes weakened workers’ power and helped usher in an era of extreme inequality.

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.

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 »