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.
Read more...The tariff situation has developed not necessarily to the advantage of the car industry.
Read more...If we look at the “Great Game” through the lens of internecine strife of the global neoliberal elite, does it matter who wins?
Read more...The dollars helped schools and food banks buy from small farmers, boosting the local food system.
Read more...The massive Trump tariffs are a con on a global scale. Trump is not rejecting the corporate trade model. He’s weaponizing it.
Read more...Another layer of the ongoing campaign to get more Americans to use private and generally inferior Medicare Advantage over Traditional Medicare
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