Rather than cracking down on employers exploiting immigrant labor, we’re getting an assault on unions and rendition of immigrant activist students. And an increase in H1 and H2s to further drive down wages and worker protections is likely coming.
Read more...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...An update on DOGE’s rampage through government functions.
Read more...“Without competition from our public Postal Service, for-profit firms would jack up delivery fees on as many customers as possible.”
Read more...What is Trump trying to achieve on the economic front? Despite all the bobbing and weaving, he does have some core aims.
Read more...Trump’s slash and burn tariff policy is to shrink government, gut regulation and sell off public assets to pay for his tax cuts on super rich
Read more...Trump promised in 2016 and 2024 to undo deindustrialization from globalization and free trade, with tariffs as his main tool. Can it work?
Read more...Yet another Trump gutting of a whole swathe of programs, here by eliminating the experts who knew how to determine poverty thresholds.
Read more...Do Trump’s trade flip flops, destructive to everyone save perhaps insider traders, show that he has entered a Mad Ludwig phase?
Read more...Yet more Trump Administration cruelty: cutting support to food banks.
Read more...Why Christopher Lasch, who died over 30 years ago, is the historian of our times…or perhaps our first psychohistorian?
Read more...More on the false premise that Trump can restore the US as a manufacturing powerhouse.
Read more...An attempt to divine the political roots of Trump’s trade and tariff policies.
Read more...A program that purchased medical debt at a deep discount, while effective, still reinforces a predatory system.
Read more...The focus on the market rout pervesely distracts attention from Trump’s massive and probably durable real economy destruction.
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