Archive for October 2022
What Brazil Teaches America
Actually delivering for working people matters. It also matters whether elites support democratic institutions.
Read MoreThe Economy Is Still Robust
Will the Fed take that health as a cue to keep strangling it?
Read MoreEurope: Great Public Systems and Eroding Public Confidence
The nations of the EU are fast depleting the legacy of a decent social compact.
Read MoreDemocrats Finally Start Talking About the Economy
It’s about time—and one has to hope, just in time.
Read MoreIs the 2022 Midterm Lost to Dems?
Not if we ignore the pack-rat punditry and take a closer look.
Read MoreHow the Center Enables Fascism
It’s not enough to be ‘pro-democracy.’ It’s necessary to be pro-worker.
Read MoreCan Democrats Talk About Inflation?
They’d better learn how. They won’t win the midterms just on reproductive rights.
Read MoreA French Lesson on Inflation and Social Class
In France, workers have shut down oil refineries, demanding wage hikes as a share of company windfall profits.
Read MoreBernanke’s Odd Nobel Prize
As a close student of the Great Depression, he knew enough to prevent a repeat of it—but forgot the lessons about the need for tougher regulation of the financial system.
Read MoreRecovery Is Not Quite Dead
This will only whet the Fed’s appetite for more punishment.
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