economy
Weekly jobless claims skyrocket to 3.28 million, breaking all records
March 26, 2020WASHINGTON—Due to coronavirus pandemic shutdowns, weekly jobless claims skyrocketed in the week ending March 21 to 3.283 million, shattering all records since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started collecting such data. The enormous rise also left...
Read moreSides agree on $2 trillion coronavirus aid bill
March 25, 2020While the measure helps workers, corporate lobbies seized the chance to insert some multibillion-dollar goodies for themselves, too, feeding off U.S. taxpayers for $20 billion more for agribusiness and a reported $17 billion for Boeing, for...
Read moreCan coronavirus teach us the value of a democratic economy?
March 18, 2020What can we learn from what is going on, if we are paying attention?
Read moreChina declares “people’s war” against coronavirus; global economic impact spreads
February 4, 2020Instead of focusing on public preparedness, the Trump administration is more interested in using the crisis to step up its attacks on China.
Read moreCuban reform: Overcoming the separation of economics and politics
September 18, 2019The term “economism” has been used since Lenin’s time to characterize a situation of political prerogatives losing out to economic ones and of the resulting trouble for the working class. Cuba's reform process faces the same...
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