July/August 2022

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 »

Available only in the print edition:

Exporting Water in the Era of Climate Cataclysm

Bill Barclay

Part Two of a Two-Part Series on California’s Intensive Agriculture

the regulars

editors’ note Inflation Blame Game
the short run
two cents
cartoon Slap on the Wrist
comment Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements
making sense Control the Vampire Companies
dr. dollar“Everything Is Connected to Everything Else”