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From the Dollars & Sense blog:

How the U.S. Military Protects and Enriches Multinational Speculators | August 10th
University of Vermont Penalizes Rethinking Economics | August 1st
New Issue! | July 23rd
From Germany to America: A Dialog on Inequality | June 23rd

Recent posts»

Pay No Attention to the Inequality
Behind the Curtain!

John Miller | August 10

Corporate critics cry foul when SEC releases CEO pay data. Read more »
Neutralized

ROB LARSON | August 3

Big Tech’s Retreat from Net Neutrality | Read more »
Why Is the Fed Increasing Interest Rates?

ARTHUR MACEWAN | July 21

Dear Dr. Dollar: Why is the Federal Reserve raising interest rates? What’s the impact? Read more »
Summer Reading List

STEVEN PRESSMAN | July 6

Our book reviewer gives his summer recommendations. Read more »
Why Janus Matters

GERALD FRIEDMAN | June 25

Bracing for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling attacking public-sector workers. Read more »
Beyond Trump's Tariffs and Trade War

JOHN MILLER | June 12

Trump's tariffs will indeed harm the U.S. economy, but the WSJ editors’ free-market policies are not a desirable alternative. Read more »
Financing a Sustainable Economy in Los Angeles

JANE PAUL | May 26

Part 1 of a Series: A Sustainable Economy Rises
in Los Angeles Read more »
What’s Behind the Teachers’ Strikes

ELLEN DAVID FRIEDMAN | May 19

The Labor-Movement Dynamic of Teacher Insurgencies Read more »
How Filipino Migrants Gave the Grape Strike
Its Radical Politics

DAVID BACON | May 1

Honoring Larry Itliong and a generation of radicals whose political ideas are as relevant to workers now as they were in 1965. Read more »
Modern Money

ROBERT HOCKETT | April 12

A Legal, Functional, and Historical Primer on Modern Monetary Theory Read more »
Rising Asset Bubbles Distort the Industrial Base

MARIE CHRISTINE DUGGAN | March 29

Part 2 of a Series on Deindustrialization in Keene, N.H. Read more »
12 Rules for Spitting on the Poor

NOAH BERLATSKY | March 20

If the essence of neoliberalism is an ideological faith in the righteous virtue of individual choice, then self-help books are the true heirs of Milton Friedman. Read more »
Growing Together, Flying Apart

GERALD FRIEDMAN | March 14

Regional Disparities in American Politics and Economics Read more »
Is Economic Growth Compatible with
Ecological Sustainability?

ARTHUR MACEWAN | February 16

Dear Dr. Dollar: Why do economists who claim to care about climate change keep talking about “growth, growth, growth”?Read more »

Special to the Web:

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 »

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 »
Debt and Development

Alejandro Reuss | December 4, 2015

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

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 »

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

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