Trade, Tariffs, and Soybeans
Trump has consistently claimed that exporters, those countries who are “ripping us off,” are paying the tariffs. However, the actual data tell a different story.
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Labor Day? Let’s Tell The Truth And Call It “Assets Day”
By Douglas K. Smith, author of On Value and Values: Thinking Differently About We In An Age Of Me. Crossposted
The Agony of Mexican Labor Today
For the last year and a half, tens of thousands of Mexican teachers have been involved in demonstrations, weeks-long strikes,
Dear Dr. Dollar: A Case for Public Ownership
Dear Dr. Dollar: Would the U.S. economy work better if some industries were nationalized? Banks? Other industries? Which ones and why? —Richard Hobbs, San Jose, Calif.
What's Next for Greece?
Credit: Fee Plumley, Creative Commons Attribution license 2.0. Most readers already probably know the sequence of events between Greece
The People in the Tents Say "Yes"
Fernando Mendez has been a leader of the encampment from the beginning. When Ruben Beas says he's been
On Its 80th Birthday, Securing Social Security
Today is the 80th anniversary of Social Security; here's our book reviewer Steve Pressman's review of
Links: SEC and CEOs, Greece, Mexico, Trump, Salaita
(1) Greece: In addition to the great video by Alicé Anil embedded above (well worth watching; includes clips with Krugman,
Links on Cops, Wage Stagnation, Phil Gramm, etc.
(1) Cops: I just posted Kristian Williams' article in our current issue, Poverty Crime, Privileged Crime: Policing and Economic
Report from Greece, plus more links on Greece
(1) When Greece Bailed Out Germany: Via Portside, the image above was the "poster of the week" recently
A Report from Iran
Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain had a great piece in The Intercept, Iranians’ View of the Nuclear Deal: Optimistic, With