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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The Political Economy of Trumponomics
The following interview with Gerald Epstein, contributor to Triple Crisis blog, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,
New Issue!
Our January/February issue is finally out--sent to e-subscribers a couple of days ago, and in the mail
The Women’s March on Washington and the Coming of Age of Feminism
We are a bit late posting this excellent piece by Julie Matthaei, but it's all the more relevant
The New Democrats’ Addiction to Austerity Will Not Die
Cross-posted at New Economic Perspectives. By William K. Black I know the Republicans are complete hypocrites about federal deficits
Trump and National Neoliberalism
Trump's ascendance means the end of globalism--but not of neoliberalism.
What Trump Can and Can't Do to Immigrants
People make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under
The Public Editor Reveals the NYT's Contempt for Workers
A few weeks ago, the New York Times ran a front-page article about president-elect Donald Trump's
The Federal Reserve Raising Interest Rates Is Unwelcome and Unnecessary
By Thomas Palley Cross-posted from the AFL-CIO economy blog. Wednesday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to raise
The Democratic Party’s “Centrist” Leaders Remain Clueless
By William K. Black Cross-posted at New Economic Perspectives. On December 10, 2016, a New York Times article entitled
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs -- Not Austerity
By William K. Black Cross-posted at New Economic Perspectives. Bob Rubin and Alan Greenspan convinced the New Democrats, over
Krugman’s Failure to Speak Truth to Power about Austerity
By William K. Black Cross-posted at New Economic Perspectives. In the first column in this series I explained how