Economics – Page 62 – People's World

Colonialism bears bitter fruit in Puerto Rico

March 20, 2017 By W. T. Whitney Jr.

The U.S. government board controlling Puerto Rican finances has approved a plan that extracts $800 million per year from the island in interest payments and orders pension reductions and layoffs.

Trumpcare: The lies about healthcare are starting to hurt

March 14, 2017 By Jesse Jackson

Trumpcare’s two biggest tax cuts will lard $144 billion into the pockets of those with incomes over $1 million or more over the next decade while denying millions of insurance.

Trump plays friend to workers on trade while pursuing privatization

March 13, 2017 By Tony Burke

U.S. unions face a dilemma: how to work with a president who’s avowedly anti-union and yet is pursuing some of their aims, like re-negotiating NAFTA?

Chinese Communist leader defends globalization while U.S. talks isolationism

February 22, 2017 By Jenny Clegg

In a bizarre twist, it falls to China's Communist leader Xi Jinping to defend globalization as Trump talks of closing borders and halting trade.

Neoliberal agenda thriving despite Trump’s nationalist trade rhetoric

February 21, 2017 By Joe Sims

President Trump talks a good nationalist game when it comes to TPP and free trade, but the rest of his agenda so far shows Wall Street neoliberal ideology is setting the pace.