Trump Agenda: Privatization of Medicare and Social Security?
Nancy Altman discusses prospects for privatisation of Medicare and Social Security raised by Trump’s HHS and other nomination announcements.
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Trump’s Win is a Warning: Europe Urgently Needs a New Deal
Europe is ignoring the lessons of New Deal era much to its peril.
Read more...The Electoral Consequences of Globalization
A look at some of the economic and political issues related to globalization.
Read more...How the Global Left Destroyed Itself (or, All Sex Is Not Rape)
Why the politics of sex in particular, and identity politics in general, have undermined the left.
Read more...Bill Black: Howard Dean Wants to Continue Austerity’s Assault on the Working Class
Why Democrats like Howard Dean believe in and sell austerity snake oil.
Read more...Trumpism Has Dealt a Mortal Blow to Orthodox Economics and ‘Social Science’
Why Trumpism caused mainstream ‘social science’ to fall like a house of cards.
Read more...Wolf Richter: US Pension Crisis: This is How Families Get Squeezed to Bail Out Pension Funds in Chicago
Coming to a municipality near you..
Read more...Bill Black: Krugman’s Failure to Speak Truth to Power About Austerity
Krugman’s fiscal orthodoxy led him to enable Hillary’s disastrous embrace of austerity rather than call her out for it.
Read more...Bill Black: Hillary’s Threat to Wage Continuous War on the Working Class via Austerity Proved Fatal
Black recounts how fundamental austerity-driven economic policies had become to the Democrats and how Hillary embraced them wholeheartedly.
Read more...Why Economic Recovery Requires Rethinking Capitalism
Capitalism needs a dose of socialism, aka public works. Mission-oriented public investment is vital to revive private-sector investment.
Read more...Will Trump Be Rolled by the Republican Establishment?
If Trump is serious about policies like rebuilding infrastructure and reducing foreign conflicts, can he prevail over his party’s establishment?
Read more...The Old Democrat Wall Street Plus Identity Politics Playbook is Dead
The Democrats need to reinvent themselves. Appeals to identity politics will not deliver enough votes.
Read more...Voters Repudiate Clinton
Hillary Clinton is over.
Read more...Bill Black: Liberals Didn’t Listen – The Immense Cost of Ignoring Tom Frank’s Warnings
Why liberals (which do not forget is not the same as the left) reaped the whirlwind in the elections
Read more...Gaius Publius: TPP Is a Monopoly Protection Scheme, the Exact Opposite of a “Free Trade” Deal
Obama is determined to pass the TPP in the lame duck session, so yet another reminder of what this deal is really about.
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