It’s Trump, not Mamdani, who’s having government take over businesses.
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When the Capitals of Capitalism Go Socialist
Today On TAP: When Wall Street gazillionaires take over a city, that city may rise up against them.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Wall Street’s Corruption of the Democrats Is Broader Than Crypto
‘Abundance’ needs to include constraints on predatory capitalism.
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Pyramid Schemes Are Eating American Capitalism
Multilevel marketing companies helped produce President Trump, and he is ruining everything.
Posted inWorking in America
A Working-Class Pope
By his deeds, and by choosing the name of the last Pope Leo, the new pope’s Catholicism appears Christian—and even social—democratic.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Markets as Master
Trump and Musk could evade public opinion and popular outrage for a while, but the markets have brought them to heel.
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Trump Undone (Well, Partially Put on Hold)
Today on TAP: The president is compelled to delay his tariffs. The Republican Congress failed to do it, so the markets did.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Cold War Kids
Apple’s hit show ‘Severance’ was originally about the class struggle; Season 2 stifles that in favor of corporate crisis management.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Rapacious Capitalism and Upside-Down Politics
MAGA wins because leading Democrats have failed to narrate why so many Americans feel screwed by the system.