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.
May/June 2011
These are all the articles from the May/June 2011 issue that have been posted online. To see the full table of contents for this issue, go to https://www.dollarsandsense.org/issue-294/
5 articles
Inside the Subrime Monster
A review of The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a
No Fooling—Corporations Evade Taxes
>What the Top U.S. Companies Pay in Taxes Some of the world’s biggest, most profitable corporations enjoy
Teachers, Secretaries, and Social Workers: The New Welfare Moms?
Conservatives have had their sights on public-sector workers for a while and for good reason. Public-sector workers represent
Are Low Wages and Job Loss Inevitable?
Dear Dr. Dollar: The main narrative that I hear in mainstream press is that U.S. workers are being undercut