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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Can Killing Government Prevent Special Interest Capture?
In my last post on meat markets and securities markets, I argued that competitive markets require government oversight to prevent
Europe Slumming, foreclosure rulings, etc.
(Click on the image above--it is from a very interesting exhibit from 2005.) (1) Europe Slumming It: Last month the
Seniors, Students, and Who "Creates Jobs"
(1) Seniors: Hat-tip to regular blog reader TM for alerting us to an op-ed by WashPo economics blah-blah-er Robert Samuelson
Blog is back up; Right targets NLRB
A quick post, now that the blog is back up. (Thanks to D&S subscriber and WordPress expert Shaun
New Issue; Bill Black on Le Show
(1) May/June issue in the mail: E-subscribers have received their May/June issue, and print subscribers should be receiving
Inside the Subrime Monster
A review of The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a Global Crisis by Michael W. Hudson. (New York: Times Books, 2010.)
Teachers, Secretaries, and Social Workers: The New Welfare Moms?
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Dear Dr. Dollar:
The main narrative that I hear in mainstream press is that U.S. workers are being undercut and eventually displaced by global competition. I think this narrative has a tone of inevitability, that low wages and job loss are driven by huge impersonal forces that we can't do much about. Is this right?
Right-wing attacks labor studies
We were outraged to learn about the recent attack on our friend and colleague Judy Ancel, by the unscrupulously malignant
Dodd-Frank revisited
A headline in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal had me wondering whether their proofreader had missed an extra comma: Wall