The Private Equity Deception
Private equity firms are a risky place to invest and their reported returns can be misleading.
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New Issue! Plus--Fed Rate Hike Explained
Our new issue is at the printers! Print subscribers should get their copies in the first week of January (the
The $80 Billion Shift We Need Now for Economic Democracy
By Michelle Long, Executive Director, BALLE This guest post appears on the Dollars & Sense blog as part of New
Why Free Higher Ed Can't Wait
By Biola Jeje and Belinda Rodriguez This guest post appears on the Dollars & Sense blog as part of New
Dead Empires: How China May Overtake the U.S.
By Polly Cleveland “The earth is the tomb of dead empires, no less than of dead men.” Thus wrote the
The Worst Place in the U.S. to Be Black Is...Wisconsin
Xavier Thomas rode the bus to school growing up. He and a handful of other African-American kids from Milwaukee were
Dear Dr. Dollar: Puerto Rico’s Colonial Economy
It seems like Puerto Rico's economic and financial mess came out of nowhere. Until recently, there wasn't much about Puerto Rico in the press, but what there was seemed to portray things as fine, with a generous amount of funds going to the island from Washington. Sometimes, Puerto Rico was held up
A Superfund for Workers
How to Promote a Just Transition and Break Out of the Jobs vs. Environment Trap
The Worst Place in the U.S. to Be Black Is...
... the home state of our new Speaker of the House. Now that our November/December issue, with its cover story
Tuesday Links; New Issue!
New Issue! We are just sending this to the printers; e-subscribers will get their full-color pdfs in the next few
Tuesday Links: TPP, Corbyn, Sanders, etc.
Off Guardian (embedded above), Tony Benn speech on the aims of Thatcherite policies. Via Gaius Publius, via Naked Capitalism, where