The U.S.-China confrontation is a game for the elites. The rest of us would be best served by sitting this one out

If instead of taxing corporate profits we targeted stock returns, we could be certain of collecting the tax rate we had targeted

In three of the five Midwestern swing states there were actually more manufacturing jobs created in the last three years of the Obama administration than in the first three years of the Trump administration

Starting with the one I find most troubling, their source on job posting shows a huge falloff in August. Nationally, we are almost back to the lows reached in May.

he idea that we would not address pressing needs, like climate change, child care, and health care because we are concerned about the debt burden is close to crazy. As long as the economy is not near its capacity, there is zero reason not to spend to address these priorities

If we want to have serious policy discussions, and not just protect existing patterns of inequality, government-granted patent and copyright monopolies have to be on the table

There is no evidence that generous unemployment benefits are making it difficult to find workers

This is really a question of life and death. Tens of millions of workers have serious health conditions that mean they would be at considerable danger if they became infected

Source: Center for Economic and Policy Research Moderna, a relatively new biotech company, has generally been seen as the leading U.S. contender…

Taxpayer-Funded Drug Research Should Require Open-Source Sharing by BigPharma, Not Profiteering Patents. Let’s Start With the Coronavirus Vaccine