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Trade, Tariffs, and Soybeans

Trump has consistently claimed that exporters, those countries who are “ripping us off,” are paying the tariffs. However, the actual data tell a different story.

Bill Barclay Nov 6, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Wage Stagnation vs. Living Wages for U.S. Workers Today

Far from earning living wages, most U.S. workers have experienced wage stagnation since the 1970s--a trend largely obscured by political rhetoric and misinformation.

Robert Pollin Nov 3, 2025

Left Hook Economics

Inflation Haunting Halloween

A specter is haunting Halloween—the specter of inflation.

John Miller Oct 31, 2025

July/August 2022

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

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