So We Don’t Have to Talk About the Rich

For years Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan wowed the Washington pundit class by pushing his balanced budget proposals. Not only did he…

Trade Really Did Kill Manufacturing Jobs

Paul Krugman criticized the Trump administration for its budget, which would cut or eliminate many programs that benefit low- and moderate-income people.…

Whatever the implications for winning elections, progressives should support policies that reverse upward redistribution because it is the right thing to do

The Republicans are rigging the system to transfer tens of billions of dollars a year from ordinary workers to their rich friends. The only principle here is giving more money to the rich

Developing countries have been lending large amounts of capital to rich countries, especially the United States. Much of this has taken the form of developing countries buying dollar-based assets to be held as reserves by their central banks

Davos Man has no particular interest in a free market or unregulated economic system. They only object to interventions that reduce their income

Among the many myths about globalization, the worst is that the loss of large numbers of manufacturing jobs in the United States (and Europe) was inevitable

Interview on the fiction of capitalism being an economic system that anyone can prosper in with the right skills