“How Long Is It Before Reform Implodes?”
Is Reform less formidable than its stunning success in recent local council elections indicates?
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
Currency Wars, Class Warfare, and the Republican Dilemma Over Medicaid
Faced with a shrinking list of options to trim the budget, Republicans are now eyeing Medicaid – but will that fly among Trump supporters?
Read more...Distributional and Macroeconomic Effects of Trump 2.0: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer
The likely outcome of Trump policies are a recession, a rise in inequality, and a further fall in living standards of working and middle-class Americans
Read more...At Social Security, These Are the Days of the Living Dead
More proof at Social Security of the damage done by letting DOGE run wild.
Read more...Complacency, Denialism and the Risk of an Economic Trumpocalypse
Why the downside to Trump economic policies are far greater than the press and pundit class are willing to acknowledge.
Read more...Federal Cuts Gut Food Banks as They Face Record Demand
An update on the worsening shortfalls at food banks as the impact of Federal cuts takes hold.
Read more...The Legal Limits of Trump’s Crackdown on Sanctuary Cities Like Philadelphia
Trump is escalating his campaign against sanctuary cities, and potentially even sanctuary churches. How might that play out?
Read more...Michael Hudson and Yanis Varoufakis with Ann Pettifor on Economic and Political Paradigm Changes
The formidable trio of Michael Hudson, Yanis Varoufakis, and Ann Pettifor assess the rapid changes in our economic system.
Read more...Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution
What ought to be a cause for tariffs pause: unrepresentative and often high taxes were a major spur to the French Revolution.
Read more...How the American Economy Is Rigged to Serve the Rich, and Why Tariffs Won’t Change That
The money to support well-paid American jobs exists—it’s just being hoarded by the rich.
Read more...Trump Wants World to Subsidise US Empire
A Trump advisor argues, in all seriousness, that other countries should help bear the cost of US empire because it confers so many benefits on them.
Read more...‘You Don’t Need a Tariff, You Need a Revolution’
Chinese point out that Americans are exploited by oligarchs. But the tariffs, like it or not, are part of a radical right counter-revolution.
Read more...More on DOGE’s Fraud and Destruction
An update on DOGE’s rampage through government functions.
Read more...Who Will Pay the Highest Price for Trump’s Postal Service Privatization Push?
“Without competition from our public Postal Service, for-profit firms would jack up delivery fees on as many customers as possible.”
Read more...7 Truths About Trump’s Tariffs — And the High-Stakes Future They Shape
What is Trump trying to achieve on the economic front? Despite all the bobbing and weaving, he does have some core aims.
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