January/February 2016

What Would Sanders Do? Pt. 2

Gerald Friedman

How Bernie Sanders’s policies would affect wages, poverty, and inequality. | Read more »
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 »
The Origins and Crisis of Neoliberalism

David Kotz

Part One: A Great Fall

Part Two: All the King’s Horses
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 »
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 »

Available only in the print edition:

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.

the regulars

editors’ note Greed?
the short run
up against the Wall Street Journal “Economic Freedom” No Cure for Our Ills
in review Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, $2.00 a Day, and Anthony B. Atkinson, Inequality: What Can Be Done?
ask dr. dollar Dollar Dominance Explained

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