Issue 322: January/February 2016

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  What Would Sanders Do? Pt. 2

  Gerald Friedman

  How Bernie Sanders’s policies would affect wages, poverty, and inequality. | Read more »

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  Is a $15 Minimum Wage Economically Feasible?

  Jeannette Wicks-Lim

  Activism to raise the wage is pushing the envelope. But can the minimum wage be raised so high without costing jobs or hurting businesses? | Read more »

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  The Origins and Crisis of Neoliberalism

  David Kotz

  Part One: A Great Fall
  
  Part Two: All the King’s Horses

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  Neoliberalism Resurgent in Argentina

  Matías Vernengo

  The election of businessman Mauricio Macri to the presidency in Argentina signals a rightward turn in the country and, perhaps, in South America more generally. | Read more »

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  The Fed Raises Rates—by Paying the Banks

  Marty Wolfson

  The Federal Reserve is raising its target federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point—using a dramatically new method. | Read more »

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How Private Equity Works and Why It Matters

Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt

The (usually) legal ways that today’s “leveraged buyout“ artists load companies with debt, strip their assets, and make a killing. | Order this issue or subscribe.