This year, there’s a built-in understanding of the stakes, and opportunities to take back the country from its malefactors.
Economic Policy
Posted inEconomic Policy
Judge Warns Vought of Contempt Order if He Back-Door Shuts Down CFPB
Judge Amy Berman Jackson has clarified that Vought would violate her injunction against shuttering the consumer protection agency if he declines to seek funding for it.
Posted inTAP
Trump Loses GOP Support on China Policy
Add Republican objections to Trump’s China capitulations to the growing realm of defections from leaders of his own party.
Posted inEconomic Policy
When in Doubt, Pretend to Be Lina Khan
The Trump administration’s plans to lower prices are just Biden-era retreads. Unfortunately, they’re just plans, with no expected follow-through.
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Happy 2025 By-Product: Revulsion at the Rich
With Trump, Musk, Bezos et al. running amok, progressive economic populism is on the rise. Polling shows a broad public turn toward policy that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and wealth to our billionaires and make life’s necessities affordable.
Posted inTAP
Pepsi and Walmart’s Monopolization Machine Revealed
An unsealed lawsuit that Trump’s FTC tried to bury puts the pricing schemes of business on full display.
Posted inPolitics
Republican Conundrum: Working-Class Base, Plutocratic Agenda
Last week, some swing-district Republicans inched away, selectively, from their party’s economics.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Can Canada Rescue North America?
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has a grueling mission ahead to preserve the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement.
Posted inTAP
Will the Court Rule for Trump or for Wall Street?
As the Supreme Court now considers whether Trump can take over the Federal Reserve, we lose either way.
Posted inBooks
The Internet’s Tollbooth Operators
Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction chronicles the way Big Tech platforms have turned against their users.
