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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 361: July/August 2022

Labor and the Economic Impacts
of the Covid-19 Crisis

Alejandro Reuss

An update of the author’s June 2020 article, “How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic Crisis.” | Read more »
Round Up the Usual Scapegoats

John Miller

Instead of trying to make sense of the multitude of factors that pushed up prices, the conservative economists have fixated on the usual scapegoats: government spending and tighter labor markets. | Read more »

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Exporting Water in the Era of Climate Cataclysm

Bill Barclay

Part Two of a Two-Part Series on California’s Intensive Agriculture | Order this issue or subscribe.

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