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.
March/April 2014
These are all the articles from the March/April 2014 issue that have been posted online. To see the full table of contents for this issue, go to https://www.dollarsandsense.org/issue-312/
4 articles
Obama's Pacific Deal Would Deepen Income Divide
"Those at the top have never done better," President Obama ruefully acknowledged in his January 28 State of
Assessing Those CBO Numbers on the Minimum Wage
Many supporters of an increase in the minimum wage viewed projections of job loss in the recent report from the
The Rise of the Gig Economy
Growing numbers of Americans no longer hold a regular "job" with a long-term connection to a particular