Tag: U.S. Economy

Trumponomics has exploded the deficit, hurt ordinary Americans, and lined the pockets of the wealthy and corporations.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claimed the ban is in retaliation for Cuba “providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua.”

Gig work is making capitalism harsher.

Legalizing, taxing, and regulating is good for the economy and creates jobs.

If between 1979 and 2018, the American economy almost tripled in size, so where did the gains go? Most went to the top.

A network of public banks including a central bank operated as a public utility could similarly fund a U.S. Green New Deal – without raising taxes, driving up the federal debt, or inflating prices.

Free trade is simply a euphemism for the corporate capture of international trade.

Without significant adjustments, mainstream economics will remain two steps behind changing realities on the ground, and economists will be risking a further loss of credibility and influence.

An old North Carolina mill town turns small individual investments into bigger returns.

Real people in the real world, those not at the top, have experienced a decade of ever greater instability, while the inequality gap of this beyond-gilded age is sure to shape a truly messy world ahead.