The Private Equity Deception
Private equity firms are a risky place to invest and their reported returns can be misleading.
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The Dangers of Private Debt: High levels of household and corporate debt in the U.S. are making inequality worse and could make the recession deeper
The U.S. economy is in a bad way. An unprecedented pandemic-borne recession that saw the highest rate of swift
Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers' Movement
Part 3: How Inequality Kills, and How to Fight It in the Era of Covid-19
Our latest issue!
We have sent our latest (July/August 2020) issue to the printers and to e-subscribers, and we'd already
Review of Thomas Frank's "The People, No"
By Polly Cleveland These days the major media fill with denunciations of populists. They are the ignorant people who rally
Out of Policy Ideas? Cut Capital Gains Taxes!
Economists react to the Covid-19 economy with a familiar cure-all.
Police Violence Is Enabled by 'Liberal' Politicians' Massive Spending
George Floyd's death proves again why America needs to defund bloated and militarized police departments.
Essential--and Expendable--Mexican Labor
On both sides of the border, Mexican workers are now essential--to U.S. corporations.
Local or Far Away?
Economists tend to assume that the sole goal of our economic activity is to get things as cheaply possible. But outside the narrow world of economics, people care about a lot of other things.
Corporate Funding of Police Foundations
The lavish overfunding of the police goes beyond public money.
Dating the Recession
Alarmed by the coronavirus-induced economic collapse, the NBER declares the economy in a recession in record time. By John Miller
Murder of George Floyd and My Segregated Youth
By John Weeks John Weeks is a London-based member of the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE), one of the
New: Annual Labor Issue
Our May/June issue, which is our Annual Labor Issue, is finally at the printers. We just posted Nicole Aschoff&