Latest Economy

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  Early: The Housing Affordability Crisis and What Millennials Can do About It

  Skyrocketing prices for all three forms of housing have created a generational divide, with major political implications for progressive city governments and advocates of affordable housing
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  Weisbrot: Trump’s Trade Policy Towards China

  A Distraction to Benefit the Rich
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  Baker: Going with Patent Holders Against Workers

  Trump seems to have made the concerns of companies like Boeing, who want more help maintaining their control over technology, his top priority
• Pizzigati: Making Millions Misleading Cancer Patients

  Cancer is also helping some Americans become exceedingly rich. And these Americans will do most anything to keep their windfalls coming, even prey on the fragile psyches of the families cancer strikes
• Segarra: Wall Street’s Corruption Runs Deeper Than You Can Fathom

  “Changing the regulatory culture on [a] U.S. governmental level is something that’s going to take a decade, maybe two. And we need to start now, before things get worse.”
• Pizzigati: “A New Labor Activism Is Surging”

  What do the traditional and nontraditional approaches to labor activism share: a conviction that social justice in the United States requires a sweeping mobilization of working people
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  Aronoff: What a Green New Deal Could Look Like for the Next Generation

  With the right investment, new jobs won’t be hard to come by
• Pope: “Yellow vest” protesters in Paris and Green New Dealers at home

  Enemies, or future comrades?
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  Daniels: Gentrification: The New “Negro Removal” Program

  Now is the time to act boldly and courageously to defend Black communities from the destructive forces of gentrification. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
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  Prashad: Oil industry squabbles

  What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world
• Orphan: Hard Truths and the ‘Indispensable Nation’

  I’ve lived all over the United States for most of my life, but it was my crisscrossed traverse across the continent two years ago that opened my eyes to the scale of destitution of which so many have become desperately ensnared
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  Sanders: Medicare for All, Green New Deal & the Stop BEZOS Act

  Interview on efforts to pass a Green New Deal, raise the minimum wage and protect Social Security
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  Baker: Leaving Behind the Left Behind

  The reason that laid-off steelworkers in Ohio are left behind and cardiologists in New York are not, is that we designed our system of trade to subject the former to international competition while protecting the latter
• Pizzigati: GM, Jobs, and Corporate America’s Incentive to Exploit

  Executive pay excess is driving decisions that are turning workers — and their communities — into sacrificial lambs
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  Rasmus: A US-China Trade War ‘Armistice’?

  Trump ‘Blinks’ at G20 Meeting and Retreats
• Norberg-hodge: Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment

  If you’re seeking some good news during these troubled times, look at the ecologically sound ways of producing food that have percolated up from the grassroots in recent years
• Kay: The true cost of austerity: lessons from Greece

  The real lessons from Greece’s economic crisis can be learned not from the toxic legacy of austerity, but from movements for social justice and food sovereignty
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  Flanders: Amazon Gives to End Homelessness? That’s Rich

  This isn’t charity, it’s feudalism
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  Rosenberg: Getting Dangerous, Expensive Drugs in Your Medicine Cabinet

  A look at medical conflicts of interest
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  Hedges: Neoliberalism’s Dark Path to Fascism

  Economic rationality was never the point. The point was the restoration of class power