Tax Cuts, Wages and Salaries: Will Lower Taxes and Profit Repatriation Help Workers?
Debunking some of the claims of tax “reform” proponents, like that giving companies a tax break to repatriate profits will create jobs.
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GOP Tax Bill is Even Worse Than We Think
There’s ugly, and then there’s the GOP’s tax bill.
Read more...The Republican Tax Plan
Economists discuss the Republican tax proposals and for the most part, find a lot not to like.
Read more...A New Supreme Court Case Could Cripple Public Employee Unions
A case before the California Supreme Court poses a fundamental threat to public employee unions’ funding.
Read more...How Despair Helped Drive Trump to Victory
Trump did well in places that have borne the brunt of declines in manufacturing, mining, and related industries since the 1970s.
Read more...The Struggle in the Democratic Party
The fight for control over the Democratic party continues….
Read more...European Worries About Isolationist Trends
European leaders ponder how to defend internationalism. They realize that the response to the crisis created innocent losers. But what now?
Read more...What the Paradise Papers Tell Us About Global Business and Political Elites
Some observations about the Paradise Papers and the big business of tax avoidance.
Read more...Nomi Prins: Steven Mnuchin, Foreclosure King of America
A summary of the many reasons to view Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin with contempt.
Read more...Extreme Poverty Cut in Half? Only in the Minds of the Capitalists
The much-touted fall in extreme poverty is more the result of bad or cherry-picked metrics than real progress.
Read more...Remember, Remember the Eighth of November: India’s War on Cash Assessed One Year Later
One year after India launched its demonetization debacle, the economy remains cash based, and Modi has yet to pay politically.
Read more...Skyscrapers and Land Values: Evidence from Chicago on the Costs of Building Tall Cities
Why “building tall” is not an answer to urban housing affordability.
Read more...Illicit Financial Outflows from Developing Countries Grow
New GIF report shows that illicit financial outflows (IFFs) from developing countries, already at alarming levels, continue to grow rapidly.
Read more...Third Way Democrats Double Down on Anti-90% Agenda With More Attacks on Public Schools
The Democrats are sticking firmly to their anti-middle class ways, as their renewed attacks on public schools show.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Resistance, the #Resistance and Harvey Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein epitomized the Democratic party elite. And there is remarkably little willingness to acknowledge that fact.
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