When All Else Is Out of Bounds, Zap Labor
From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
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A Stronger Social Safety Net Would Free the Fed
This is from the Wall Street Journal's Real Time Economics column: Read the whole article.
Statement on the Bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
A statement from Dean Baker of the Center for Economics and Policy Research: Read the full statement.
Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, Revisited
The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that was announced yesterday was predictable. In fact, D&S collective
G-8 Crisis: Failing to Fight Food Prices
This weeks meeting of the G-8 Industrial nation’s leaders concluded with a statement pledging action on, in part,
Unemployment and Production Stagnation
According to recent reports on unemployment, the U.S. economy shed an additional 62,000 jobs in June bring the
Victory on unemployment insurance!
This just in from our friends at the Economic Policy Institute: After months of campaigning by EPI and allied groups,
The Doctors' Revolt
Ida Hellander, executive director of Physicians for a National Health Program, emailed us recently with praise for Paying More, Getting
What Housing Crisis?
Even as the U.S. housing market plummets and millions face foreclosure, the mega-rich continue to build lavish mansions.