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.
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Min. wage increases boost consumer spending
The most recent economic snapshot from the Economic Policy Institute fits nicely with an article from our March/April issue,
Fed In the Headlights
Disturbing C-Span footage of Rep. Alan Grayson questioning Elizabeth A. Coleman, Inspector General of the Federal Reserve, about whether her
A Job and No Mortgage for All in a Spanish Town
Nice piece in today's NYTimes about communists in Spain weathering the financial crisis. By VICTORIA BURNETT Published: May
The Sinking Dollar (Wallerstein)
Very clear and interesting commentary by Immanuel Wallerstein; hat-tip to Bob F. Also check out the cover story from our
The SEC and Investor Suffrage
Floyd Norris has an article in today's New York Times about a proposed rule-making that the SEC just
Wells Fargo's Counter-Stimulus Strategy
Roger Bybee's feature in our current issue shows how big corporations are taking the financial crisis and recession/
Card-Check Is Dead (Liza Featherstone)
From Slate's The Big Money blog: Card-Check Is Dead Unions are surprisingly bad at politics. By Liza Featherstone
U.S. May Add New Financial Watchdog
From today's Washington Post; hat-tip to LF: Consumer Agency Under Consideration By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Binyamin Appelbaum and
All That Glitters Is Goldman Sachs
Robert Zevin, president of Robert Brooke Zevin Associates and the founder of the socially responsible investment movement in the United
Science Fiction From Below
On Saturday I got to see a terrific new movie, Sleep Dealer, written and directed by Alex Rivera. It'
A Monetary Reformer in Kindergarten
I stumbled on this nice piece over at Global Research: A Monetary Reformer in Kindergarten We Hold These Truths: the
Michael Greenberger on Derivatives
C-Span had a nice segment on Friday with Michael Greenberger, a law professor at the University of Maryland, on derivatives.