Economy
Editors' Picks
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The Political Roots of Widening Inequality
Apr 28, 2015The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn’t technology or globalization. It’s the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.
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The Wealth Problem
Apr 30, 2015Aspiring to own a home and pursue an education are quintessentially American ideals. It's time to make those dreams accessible again.
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A Needless Default
Feb 08, 2015The administration’s foreclosure relief program was designed to help bankers, not homeowners. That disgrace will haunt Democrats.
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When Shareholder Capitalism Came to Town
Apr 19, 2014The rise in inequality can be blamed on the shift from managerial to shareholder capitalism.
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How to Live Happily with Robots
Aug 03, 2015It takes extensive government intervention to assure that gains of automation are broadly shared.
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Our Incoherent China Policy (Fall Preview)
Sep 21, 2015The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad economics, and even worse as containment of China.
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The European Prospect (Fall Preview)
Sep 28, 2015With all the pathologies of the 1930s resurgent, Europe's experiment in economic and social union has never been more at risk.
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How Gilded Ages End
Apr 29, 2015Protecting democracy from oligarchic dominance is, once again, a central imperative of American politics.
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How the American South Drives the Low-Wage Economy
Jul 06, 2015Just as in the 1850s (with the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act), the Southern labor system (with low pay and no unions) is wending its way north.
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Bobby Jindal to Poor Louisianans: Drop Dead
Jan 22, 2013The Louisiana governor eliminates hospice care for Medicaid recipients.
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Movin' on Up
Jan 17, 2013The economy is looking better, but it still needs more juice.
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How’s That Medicine Taste, Germany?
Jan 17, 2013Chancellor Merkel is finding that austerity doesn’t work. Will she relent? Will The U.S. learn from Europe’s folly?
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Bobby Jindal's New Tax Plan Would Be a Huge Blow to Louisiana's Poorest Residents
Jan 15, 2013Jindal wants Louisiana to lead the nation in upwards redistribution.
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All the President's Resolve
Jan 15, 2013This is the resolute Obama we’ve been waiting for. But to what end?
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Republicans Are Creating Their Worst Nightmare
Jan 15, 2013In the short-term, at least, defaulting on our debt is way worse than accumulating it.
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Don't Count on a Sane GOP
Jan 15, 2013What's Obama’s strategy when the debt ceiling has to be raised, if Republicans haven't relented?
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Obama to Republicans: You Have No Choice but to Raise the Debt Ceiling
Jan 14, 2013The president uses the final press conference of his first term to issue an ultimatum.
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Is Suze Orman's Advice Dangerous?
Jan 14, 2013A conversation with Helaine Olen on her new book about personal-finance gurus
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House Republicans Are Seriously Serious
Jan 14, 2013Which is why we could be heading for both a default and a government shutdown
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What the Economy Needs Is Growth (But Washington Isn't Talking About It)
Jan 14, 2013Growth comes before deficit reduction, not the other way around.
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How You Know Republicans Aren't So Serious on the Debt Ceiling
Jan 11, 2013They acknowledge that default would be a bad thing
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Bobby Jindal Decides Louisiana Isn't Doing Enough to Stick it to Poor People
Jan 11, 2013So he plans to eliminate all progressive taxes in the state.
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The Mortgage Mess and Jack Lew
Jan 11, 2013As Treasury Secretary, would Lew take a harder line with banking abuses?
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Is Jack Lew the Best We Can Do?
Jan 10, 2013President Obama's nomination of his chief of staff to run the Treasury signals the continuity of austerity politics.
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