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September/October 2021

Issue 356

September/October 2021

Do People Care About Extreme Inequality?

Arthur Macewan

Dear Dr. Dollar: Extreme inequality is having negative impacts throughout society. How long can this situation last? Will public opinion ever reflect my disapproval? | Read more »
Brazil’s Ten-Year Downward Spiral

James M. Cypher and Guillermo Foladori

How and why has Brazil fallen so far, so fast? | Read more »

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Ford Drives Away

Débora Nunes

The neoliberal right oversees the deindustrialization of Brazil. | Order this issue or subscribe.
The Public Banking Alternative

Rick Girling

A New Push to Remake the American Financial System | Order this issue or subscribe.

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editors’ note Crisis or Collapse?
the short run
two cents Letter from a Retired Boeing Software Engineer
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Up Against the Wall Street Journal Untaxed and Unfair
in review Tim Jackson, Post-Growth: Life After Capitalism