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May/June 2017

Ampersand

By B. Deutsch | May 8th
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Health
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An article series by
Alejandro Reuss

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  Is Nuclear Plant Closure a Mistake?

  Frank Ackerman | June 22

  Dear Dr. Dollar: In what I’ve read online about decommissioning of nuclear power plants, people say it is expensive and generally a disaster in the making. Is this true? Read more »

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  The GOP’s AHCA Will Cost Lives

  Mark Paul | June 13

  The CBO's devastating report on the American Health Care Act helps us see just how many lives are at stake. Read more »

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  Reform or Revolution?

  Alejandro Reuss | May 25

  Pt. 3 of “European Social Democracy and the Roots of the Eurozone Crisis.” Read more »

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  Understanding Brexit

  JOHN WEEKS | May 9

  A primer on the split that has now been set into motion. Read more »

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  The Economics of Whitelash

  John Miller | April 28

  Race, Gender, Income, and Education in the 2016 Presidential Election Read more »

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  Globalization and the End of
  the Labor Aristocracy

  Jayati Ghosh | April 9

  How changes in 21st-century imperialism have led to increasing inequality and the decline in workers’ incomes and social protections. Read more »

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  Hopsopoly

  Rob Larson | March 10

  Global beer mergers reach a new level.
  Read more »

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  Military Spending in the Swampland

  James M. Cypher | March 4

  There is every reason to anticipate that the Pentagon’s lucrative and murky wetlands will increase in depth and opacity. Read more »

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  Is It Oil? The Issue Revisited

  ARTHUR MACEWAN | February 22

  Revisiting the question of what motivated the Iraq War. Read more »

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  DAPL Doesn’t Make Economic Sense

  MARK PAUL | February 6

  The Dakota Access Pipeline imposes huge environmental and health costs, creates few jobs, and generates little government revenue. Read more »

Special to the Web:

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  Top Eleven D&S Graphs of 2016

  DOLLARS & SENSE | December 30, 2016

  From Sanders’ proposals to global private equity to stock buybacks, the best graphs (and scariest data) of 2016. With a nod to Nigel Tufnel, we’re cranking it up to eleven! Read more »



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  Rosa Luxemburg and the Growth of the Labor Movement

  Gerald Friedman | January 15, 2016

  On the 97th anniversary of her death, an account of the importance of Luxemburg’s ideas for labor organizing. | Read more »

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  Debt and Development

  Alejandro Reuss | December 4, 2015

  If debt is a “trap” for developing countries, is there any way around it? | Read more »




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  Thirty Years of Farm Aid

  CAROLYN MUGAR, RHONDA PERRY, ROGER ALLISON, AND DAVID SENTER | July 14, 2015

  Reflections on Farm Aid by insiders as the organization supporting family farms celebrates its 30th anniversary. | Read more »

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  How a Progressive Tax System Made Detroit a Powerhouse (and Could Again)

  Mason Gaffney and Polly Cleveland | August 9, 2013

  During the city’s heyday from the 1890s through the 1940s, mayors and other civic leaders embraced the principles espoused by American economist Henry George, raising revenue through property taxes, rather than income or sales taxes. Read more »

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  Banking on the Public

  Abby Scher | June 25, 2013

  Going Postal, North Dakota, and other finance alternatives: A report-back from Public Banking 2013: Funding the New Economy. Read more »

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  Taxing Cash Hoarders

  Alejandro Reuss | June 28, 2013

  Nonfinancial corporations are stockpiling enormous sums of cash. A tax on this idle cash that would light a fire under corporations to invest it now. Read more »



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  Jobs, Deficits, and the Misguided Squabble over the Debt Ceiling.

  Tim Koechlin | August 5, 2011

  Why the absurd squabble over the debt ceiling was distracting, destructive, and almost entirely beside the point. Read more »



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  Local Activism against Wal-Mart

  Corporate Power, Wal-Mart and the Undermining of the Democratic Process

  Joel Harrison | April 13, 2011

  Is the Wal-Mart Way the American Way?

  Martin J. Bennett | April 13, 2011



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  Why Is the Government Buying Long-Term Bonds?

  Alejandro Reuss | January 19, 2011

  Questions and Answers on the Fed’s “QE2” program. Read more »

Earlier web-only articles, mostly on the financial crisis, dating back to December 2007.