Latest Economy

• Freeman: The Economy Isn’t Working. That’s Exactly the Plan

  Forty years ago, around 1980, the uber-wealthy decided they wanted to get their money out of the economy. So, they engineered a controlled demolition of the U.S. economy
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  Prashad: We Are Grass. We Grow on Everything

  Around 250 million people across India joined the general strike on 26 November, making it the largest strike in world history
• Gilroy-Ware: The marketization of truth

  As Trump continues to contest the validity of the US election, it’s time we look deeper at the causes of our post-truth malaise
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  Monbiot: Caught in the Crossfire

  Brexit isn’t about Europe, and isn’t about the UK. It’s the outcome of a civil war within capitalism
• Mari: What’s Between 30 Million Americans and an Eviction Tsunami?

  Only government intervention can keep millions of Americans housed
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  Hynes: Book Review of The Inner Level

  As this book both documents and generously discusses, rising income inequality leads to a plague of ills: higher rates of people in prison, higher teenage birth rates, higher rates of mental illness, more child neglect and bullying
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  Buchheit: Inequality Gone Viral: The Obscene Numbers

  Something has to be done to heal the rupture in the sickened body of our nation
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  Engelhardt: The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire

  Or What It Means to Fall on a Failing Planet
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  Pizzigati: The Rich Cheer Wall Street’s Records While Americans Drain 401(k)s

  The nation’s woefully inadequate response to the pandemic is jeopardizing millions of retirement futures
• Todhunter: Land Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as ‘Feeding the World’

  Those farmers who survive the profiteering strategies of dispossession and imperialism are to become incorporated into a system of contract farming dictated by global agri-food giants
• Bragman: Joe Biden’s Neera Tanden Pick Is Even Worse Than You Thought

  Joe Biden’s likely nominee to head the powerful Office of Management and Budget, Neera Tanden, called for cuts to Social Security, saying, “we need to put both entitlements on the table as well as taxes”
• Flaccavento: Understanding and Overcoming the Urban-Rural Divide

  My part of the world is full of people who, according to most of my liberal friends, “vote against their own interests”.
• Flowers: To Solve the COVID Crisis, We Must Push Biden to Put People Over Profits

  Instead of a punitive approach, we need an empowering approach that gives people what they need to protect themselves
• Arnsdorf: Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections

  The Trump administration is rushing to approve dozens of eleventh-hour policy changes. Among them: The Justice Department is fast-tracking a rule that could reintroduce firing squads and electrocutions to federal executions
• Francis: A Crisis Reveals What Is in Our Hearts

  Solidarity is more than acts of generosity, important as they are; it is the call to embrace the reality that we are bound by bonds of reciprocity. On this solid foundation we can build a better, different, human future
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  Duara: As pandemic aid ends, California families face brutal new year

  An estimated 750,000 Californians are set to lose federal unemployment benefits the day after Christmas, and 2.1 million could lose their homes weeks later when a statewide eviction moratorium lifts
• Miller: The Actual Effects of Enhanced Unemployment Benefits

  Overwhelming evidence supports quite a different bedtime story—one that calls for far more humane unemployment policies
• Beery: The Rich Kids Who Want to Tear Down Capitalism

  Socialist-minded millennial heirs are trying to live their values by getting rid of their money
• Robinson: The Global Police State

  A critical look at the terrifying rise in the control of 'surplus' populations
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  Wittner: Is the Nationalist Tide Receding?

  A Pew Research Center poll of 14,276 people across 14 nations during the summer of 2020 found that 81 percent believed that “countries around the world should act as part of a global community that works together to solve problems”