The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis
Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929.
January/February 2024
These are all the articles from the January/February 2024 issue that have been posted online. To see the full table of contents for this issue, go to https://www.dollarsandsense.org/issue-370/
3 articles
Union Democracy Stands Up
The First Weekend of November, 2023, Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU) held its annual convention at a hotel near
A Country of Mini-Millionaires?
The Wall Street Journal’s rosy take on the latest Federal Reserve wealth report.
Inequality and Climate Change
A couple of relatively obvious facts: One: It’s no secret—rich people and large corporations have a disproportionate share