Economy
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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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Greedy Geezers, Reconsidered
Dec 03, 2012In the current downturn, the vast majority of the elderly are suffering along with the young. The right cure would help both generations.
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A New, Tougher Obama?
Nov 30, 2012If the president continues to stand his ground against Republicans, he'll win the battle over the "fiscal cliff."
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Explaining the Mortgage Interest Deduction
Nov 30, 2012Could it really be cut by Congress?
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Fast Food Shouldn't Mean Low Wages
Nov 29, 2012First Walmart, now McDonald's. Workers strike for dignity.
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Snatching Defeat out of the Jaws of Victory
Nov 29, 2012When it comes to the fiscal cliff, the president is in a superb tactical position. Why is he making concessions before he has to?
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Will Tim Geithner Lead Us over or around the Fiscal Cliff?
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The Election Heard Round the Watercooler
Nov 27, 2012Politics and work remain the oil and water of the office, but that doesn't mean Citizens United-happy executives won't try their damnedest to mix them.
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Simpler Is Better
Nov 26, 2012When it comes to government regulations, public is better, simpler, and more efficient.
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Why You Shouldn't Shop at Wal-Mart on Friday
Nov 23, 2012While the company's shareholders rake in $16 billion per year, the average worker at America's largest employer makes just $8.81 an hour.
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Under Water Pressure
Nov 22, 2012Nearly 400 years after the first Thanksgiving, the Navajo and Hopi are fighting the coal industry for rights to their land.
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Why We Should Stop Obsessing about the Federal Budget Deficit
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The Twinkie Defense
Nov 19, 2012Don't blame the unions for Hostess's downfall.
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The Great Society's Next Frontier
Nov 19, 2012Now that Obamacare—the largest expansion of the social-safety net in the last 60 years—is safe, what's next for the liberal economic project?
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Colorado Voters' Power of the Purse
Nov 15, 2012Current and former lawmakers are taking the Taxpayer Bill of Rights to court for a second opinion.
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Fiscal Cliff: The End Game
Nov 15, 2012By taking a hard line against Republicans—and protecting Social Security and Medicare—Obama can win the budget standoff.
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