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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Ethanol Snake Oil
BusinessWeek has an exposé on the pitfalls of ethanol. *It isn't better for the environment than oil; *It
'Sham' Bailouts Help Speculators
Naked Capitalism has a couple of nice posts about comments made by Michael Patterson, head of a private equity firm,
Steelworkers Attack ArcelorMittal
From yesterday's WSJ; find background on the situation in this feature article in our current issue. The CEO
The IMF as Big Banks' Debt-Collector
On the topic of the IMF and the "global financial community," here is a nice piece from Michael
The Global Financial Community
An excellent article by Prabhat Patnaik on networkideas.org, the website of International Development Economics Associates, starts off with Lenin
Changing the Auto Industry from the Wheels Up
We just posted a new web-only article on the auto industry, by Alejandro Reuss of the D&S collective.
Sen. Byron Dorgan: the Good and the Bad
Sen. Byron Dorgan (Dem.-N.D.) got some good press from Huffington Post a couple of days ago; turns out
Dean Baker on Economists' 'Malpractice'
Interesting piece in the Boston Review by Dean Baker about how other countries operating their health care systems far more
'Geithner' on SNL
Nice critique of the stress tests, and of both Geithner and the 19 banks that took it, in this past
Goldman Sachs Pays For Predatory Ways
Investment firm and recipient of government largess Goldman Sachs has just settled an investigation by the Attorney General of Massachusetts
All-Out Effort to Put Single-Payer 'On the Table'
From AfterDowningStreet and elswehere. They also had a great letter from Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health
Unjust Deserts by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly
REVIEW Unjust Deserts : How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back by Gar