Economics
Trump recalls 50,000 workers without pay; shutdown costs hit $1 billion a week
January 16, 2019The cost is so high that now even Trump’s own top economist admits it could end U.S. economic growth and send the nation into recession.
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Trump’s ‘new NAFTA’ won’t stop job outsourcing
December 18, 2018The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement will not end the outsourcing incentives that have allowed companies to hollow out communities across the country.
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Needed: A shorter work week
December 17, 2018Productivity is higher than ever thanks to technology...so why are we all still working so much?
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France’s “Yellow Vests”: Anatomy of a rebellion
December 12, 2018The media says the protests are spontaneous, but the real story of inequality, austerity, and lowering taxes on the super-rich began years ago—in 1983 to be exact.
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On the road to socialism: What a people’s economics might look like
December 10, 2018It is worth pointing out that General Motors’ recent announcement of it 14,000 job cuts once again demonstrates the grand boondoggle of trickle-down economics.
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