Watch the writers discuss the special issue, which investigates how outsourcing, monopolies, and just-in-time manufacturing broke our supply chains.
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⏩ Shadow Banking, Dark Money, and Bad Business
Watch our writers discuss the new frontiers of deregulation and financialization as well as some strange new financial alliances.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Supply Chain Mess
A deeper cure will take years, but Biden is finding creative ways to get things unstuck.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Two Dems Could Sabotage Bank Regulator Who Opposed Their Deregulatory Agenda
Saule Omarova’s past criticism of bank deregulation is a sticking point for Democrats wary of how aggressively she would regulate big banks.
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First 100: Still No Sign of the Congressional Review Act
Plus, Biden needs to crack down on tax evasion from the ultra-rich.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Quiet Winner of the Texas Energy Crisis
Macquarie, an Australian investment bank, is poised to profit heavily off Texas’s briefly surging energy prices during the snowstorm. The Biden infrastructure program could be its next conquest.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Freezing Texans: The Larger Lessons
The culprit is deregulation—not just in Texas and not just in electricity.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Frozen: Natural Disaster, Energy Choices, and Inhuman Responses in Texas
The Lone Star State is in free fall, pointing fingers everywhere else.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Four More Years of Trump Would Be an Environmental ‘Fiasco’
The administration has established a record of protecting polluters and undermining regulation.