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.
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New Issue--Costs of Empire
Our March/April issue has been sent to e-subscribers and should be hitting print subscribers' mailboxes soon. (Not a
Reflections on a Xenophobic Speech
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. Anticipating and sitting through President Trump’s address to Congress last night was arduous, to say
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 to print
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 and
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 public browbeating
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 interest rates
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 “Democrats
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 a
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 Hillary
Hillary’s Threat to Wage Continuous War on the Working Class via Austerity Proved Fatal
By William K. Black Cross-posted at New Economic Perspectives. I’ve come back recently from Kilkenny, Ireland where I participated