No Matter How You Look at It, the Big Beautiful Bill is a Monstrosity

Here are three views of the bill's horrific distributional consequences.

John Miller Jul 7, 2025

Left Hook

What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?

As of today, the U.S. government’s current deficit and debt are indeed currently at unprecedented levels for peacetime—once we account for them appropriately.

Robert Pollin Jul 1, 2025

Left Hook

No Tax on Tips

Even the stand-alone No Tax on Tips Act would do far too little to better the lot of low-income workers, even tipped workers.

John Miller Jun 27, 2025

neocons

3 articles

D&S BLOG

Ukraine: What Will Be Done and What Should Be Done?

By Thomas Palley Reposted from the author's blog, Economics for Democratic and Open Societies. The inevitable has happened.

Thomas Palley Feb 26, 2022

D&S BLOG

Preparations for the “Next Afghanistan” Have Already Begun

Now that the twenty year-long US military expedition to Afghanistan has ended in catastrophe, the US Neocon establishment has already

Thomas Palley Aug 22, 2021

D&S BLOG

Trump and the Neocons: Doing the Unilateralist Waltz

By Thomas Palley Re-posted, with permission, from The Globalist and ThomasPalley.com. Donald Trump’s first one hundred days have

Thomas Palley May 31, 2017