Copper and Trump’s Tariff Tantrums
Copper is an often-overlooked metal, but it has been essential to human existence. And, now, copper is the critical material for decarbonization.
Cross-posted from our sister blog, Triple Crisis. Frank Ackerman is principal economist at Synapse Energy Economics in Cambridge, Mass., and
By Polly Cleveland In the 1970’s when I studied microeconomics in grad school, we got to monopoly briefly in
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By Thomas Palley Re-posted, with permission, from The Globalist and ThomasPalley.com. Donald Trump’s first one hundred days have
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By Polly Cleveland My father, born in 1910, told me that when he was young every educated person read Progress
By Thomas Palley A key element of Trump’s political success has been his masquerade of being pro-worker, which includes
As part of our ongoing "Costs of Empire" project (see our March/April special issue on that topic
By Polly Cleveland If you’re like me, you always wanted to be a writer—but obligations came first: family,