Poverty in California Has Nearly Doubled Since 2021
For two years, researchers have both feared and expected that California’s poverty levels, annually the highest in the nation, would take off once the effects...
Who’s Afraid of Free Trade?
For decades after the Cold War, American capitalism was deeply if incompletely invested in liberalized global trade. NAFTA and other accords aimed to eliminate...
No Tears for Carl Icahn
I am not crying for Carl Icahn, who has lost about $17 billion over the last few weeks as investors have fled Icahn Enterprises...
The Major League Monopoly on Small Ball
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It’s a late August afternoon...
America’s Thousand Percent Prescription Drug Tariff
Readers are undoubtedly confused by the reference to 1000 percent tariffs on prescription drugs. We don’t call our protection for prescription drug companies “tariffs,”...
Neoliberals Are Wrong About Bidenomics
It is by now a familiar story. With the status quo in tatters following the worst financial crisis since the 1930s, a newly elected...