Issue 291

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

The features of the bill that are likely to help ordinary people were catchy and easy to understand—reduced taxes on tips and overtime pay and a higher standard deduction for the elderly on income taxes. Yet these projected revenue losses are tiny compared to those incurred by the super rich.

Update on Mortgage Lending Discrimination

By Jim Campen | November 30th

After a disastrous detour, we’re back where we started. Read more »
Deficits: Real Issue, Phony Debates

By Rick Wolff | November 23rd

What’s at stake on either side of the class divide. Read more »
Underwater

By Rob Larson | November 7th

Profits and pay are sky-high, even as bad loans are sinking the megabanks. Read more »
That Hurt! Let’s Do It Again.

By John Miller | November 7th

Responding to the Journal’s nostalgia for the Reagan tax-cuts. Read more »

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The Economics and Politics of Depropriation in the Other Colombia

By Patricia Rodriguez

In this Caribbean region of Colombia, to talk of displacement of communities by corporations does not do justice to the reality; rather, locals speak of depropriation, or the takeover of property and livelihoods with complete impunity. | Order this issue or subscribe.

the regulars

the short run
ampersand

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two cents
comment The Case for a National Infrastructure Bank
in reviewRobert Bryce, Power Hungry; Felicia Jackson, Conquering Carbon
economy in numbers How Might Black Workers Fare in the Jobless Recovery?
ask dr. dollar Is China’s Currency Manipulation Hurting the U.S.?

Not Much Change Yet

Better Wages and Working Conditions: The Workers Will Come

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

Issue 291

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