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Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? – from the NYTimes

January 12, 2025

Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? – from the NYTimes

January 12, 2025

Ben Casselman wrote this piece in the 1.10.2025 NY —>> read more –>>

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Not a right – left problem; a top – down problem. The class war is long over.

December 26, 2024

Not a right – left problem; a top – down problem. The class war is long over.

December 26, 2024

In the wake of Trump’s victory over Harris there h —>> read more –>>

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American Compass – their conservative economics get it right, mostly

December 5, 2024

American Compass – their conservative economics get it right, mostly

December 5, 2024

American Compass is a self-described think tank fo —>> read more –>>

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35 Years of Wage Stagnation and Middle-Class Life in the US

November 18, 2024

35 Years of Wage Stagnation and Middle-Class Life in the US

November 18, 2024

For the period between the end of WWII and 1979 th —>> read more –>>

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Occupy Wall St was right….

November 16, 2024

Occupy Wall St was right….

November 16, 2024

In the fall of 2011, a large group of protestors o —>> read more –>>

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Competitive Capitalism – long dead in the US

November 14, 2024

Competitive Capitalism – long dead in the US

November 14, 2024

A key part of the description of capitalism in ort —>> read more –>>

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Book Review – Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divide by David Gibbs

November 13, 2024

Book Review – Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divide by David Gibbs

November 13, 2024

Neoliberalism is the word most frequently used by —>> read more –>>

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Wealth Concentration in the US – more of the same

October 3, 2024

Wealth Concentration in the US – more of the same

October 3, 2024

October 2024 The US Congressional Budget Office ha —>> read more –>>

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Record Breaking Lobbying Spending

September 12, 2024

Record Breaking Lobbying Spending

September 12, 2024

The rich and corporations are on a path to set a n —>> read more –>>

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The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits

September 11, 2024

The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits

September 11, 2024

Milton Friedman 28 asserted in his 9.13.1970 NYTim —>> read more –>>

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Decolonizing Our World Views

August 22, 2024

Decolonizing Our World Views

August 22, 2024

In the mid-1980s, my wife Karen took me on a campi —>> read more –>>

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Top 400 in US have a lower tax rate than the bottom half of Americans

May 5, 2024

Top 400 in US have a lower tax rate than the bottom half of Americans

May 5, 2024

A frequent topic here is the staggering success of —>> read more –>>

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    • – American Delusions – introduction
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      • – financialization – from production to extraction
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