Today on TAP: They’d better learn how. They won’t win the midterms just on reproductive rights.
inflation
Posted inTAP
A French Lesson on Inflation and Social Class
Today on TAP: In France, workers have shut down oil refineries, demanding wage hikes as a share of company windfall profits.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Selling of Jerome Powell
Those who favored Powell’s renomination to the Federal Reserve insisted that he would never do precisely what he’s doing now.
Posted inPolitics
Why Are ‘Ten Million Jobs’ So Incendiary?
Middle-class workers who haven’t seen higher wages in decades don’t want to hear about a booming economy.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Cheers for Social Security’s Cost-of-Living Adjustment
It will compensate seniors for the bout of inflation. Workers deserve as much.
Posted inTAP
Recovery Is Not Quite Dead
Today on TAP: This will only whet the Fed’s appetite for more punishment.
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Stock Market Cheers Bad Economic News
Today on TAP: In hopes that maybe the deepening recession will change Fed policy. No such luck.
Posted inTAP
Why Credit Suisse Is Imperiled
Today on TAP: A crisis of confidence at Switzerland’s second-largest bank shows the dangers of Federal Reserve–driven chaos.
Posted inAmerica and the World
U.S. Declines to Blunt Pain as It Exports Inflation to Poor Countries
The Treasury is resisting calls to provide emergency liquidity for emerging markets facing a strong dollar.
Posted inPolitics
Katie Porter’s Volunteer Army Hits the Doors
The progressive fighter in a swing district is staking a third term on a prodigious volunteer effort, and straight talk on abortion and the economy.
