The Private Equity Deception
Private equity firms are a risky place to invest and their reported returns can be misleading.
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Our May/June issue is out!
Our May/June issue is out! Print subscribers should get their copies soon, and electronic subscribers just received their full-color
Criminal Inequality: Progressives Are Not Guilty
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are promising all types of programs to make America a more equal country. But when
Dear Dr. Dollar: Do Trade Agreements Foreclose Progressive Policy?
Doesn’t the increasing liberalization of U.S. international economic policies foreclose the possibilities for progressive policies in this country? Don’t these policies undercut the effectiveness of fiscal policy efforts to stimulate employment and output? And don’t they virtually rule out many prog
Paul Krugman Crosses the Line
By Gerald Epstein Cross-posted at our sister blog Triple Crisis. In his recent New York Times opinion column, "Sanders
Sanders Is Fighting to Raise the Wages for Most Black and Latino Workers
By Stephanie Luce, Associate Professor, CUNY, and Mark Paul, Research associate at The Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke
Bernie Slanders: How the Democratic Party Establishment Suffocates Progressive Change
By Thomas I. Palley, Independent Economist Washington, D.C. Cross-posted at the author's blog, thomaspalley.com. An earlier
Venezuela: Dismantling a Weapon of Mass Destruction
By Mark Weisbrot Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and
Our March/April Issue Is Out!
We sent our March/April 2016 issue to e-subscribers last week, and the print copies are now arriving in print
The Latest Links on Friedman/Sanders, Romers, etc.
Gerald Friedman, Naked Capitalism, Gerald Friedman Responds to the Romers on the Sanders Plan: Different Models, Different Politics. Differences between
Latest links on Friedman/Sanders, etc.
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