Reduced inflation across the economy magnifies the sectors where high markups persist.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Domestic Textile Industry Crashing Because of Trade Loophole
The ‘de minimis’ exemption allows Chinese e-commerce companies Shein and Temu to deliver hundreds of millions of packages of cheap clothing without tariffs or inspections.
Posted inTransportation
How Boeing Ruined the JetBlue-Spirit Merger
The judge’s ruling in the case revealed all the deficiencies in the manufacturing and distribution of commercial air travel.
Posted inWorking in America
Billionaire Pohlad Family Accused of Using Anti-Worker Construction Contractors
The Minneapolis-based developer has not done enough to ensure good labor practices throughout its supply chain, critics say.
Posted inTAP
The Airbus Advantage
Today on TAP: Why Europe’s mixed economy produces safer planes than America’s financialized capitalism
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Manchin Staffers Cash In With Big Oil
The West Virginia senator’s longtime press aide’s move to ExxonMobil is the latest in a long line of revolving-door spinners.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Progressives Went to Pot
In libertarian America, causes like legalizing weed are the easy part. Reforms to constrain capitalism or enlarge social solidarity are far harder—and far more essential.
Posted inBooks
Uber and the Impoverished Public Expectations of the 2010s
A new book shows that Uber was a symbol of a neoliberal philosophy that neglected public funding and regulation in favor of rule by private corporations.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Unmasking the Local TV Station Monopolies
Deregulation has rendered station ownership caps meaningless. But a federal antitrust case and a new FCC majority offer one last chance to unwind broadcast consolidation.
