From Dollars & Sense magazine:
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The Chained CPI:
Bad for Seniors and for Accuracy
By John Miller | May 17
Using the chained CPI will reduce Social Security benefits by more and more each year. Read more »
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Unemployment Is Down,
So What’s the Problem?
By Alejandro Reuss | May 8
The U-3 unemployment rate is down, yet the employment-to-population ratio is flat. Read more »
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P3 Push in El Salvador
By Hilary Goodfriend | April 16
In the face of aggressive U.S. pressure to pass a privatization law, Salvadoran workers seek international solidarity. Read more »
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Whose Housing Recovery?
By Darwin Bondgraham | March 26
Big-money investors snap up tens of thousands of foreclosed homes for
rental income and speculation. Read more »
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Federal Spending Is Not “Out of Control”
By Gerald Friedman | March 20
Federal spending as a share of GDP has declined sharply. The real cause of the deficit is declining revenue due to tax cuts and recession. Read more »
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Beyond Deficit Scare-Mongering
By Ellen Frank | March 8
From the fiscal cliff to the sequester to the debt-ceiling, conservatives’ real aim in their fiscal brinkmanship is to gut Social Security and Medicare. Read more »
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A Nightmare on Maple Street
By Maurice Dufour | February 25
Prime Minister Stephen Harper struggles to slay the specters haunting Canada’s oil sands. Read more »
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How High Could The Minimum Wage Go?
By Jeannette Wicks-Lim | February 13
Pres. Obama proposed raising the minimum wage to $9/hour. But a 70% boost—to $12.30/hour—would help millions of workers, without killing jobs. Read more »
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The Great Tax-Cut Experiment
By Gerald Friedman | February 5
The dramatic cuts in tax rates in the U.S. over recent decades have not led to an acceleration in economic growth, investment, or productivity. Read more »
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The Formerly Advanced Economies
By Robin Hahnel | February 1
A brief anatomy of the “econo-cide” being committed by ruling elites in a region which long dominated the global economy but soon no longer will. Read more »
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“Free-Market” Outcomes Are Not Fair
—and Not Free
By Marty Wolfson | January 11
True or false?: “Since 1980, the U.S. government has reduced its intervention in the U.S. economy, which has become much more of a free market.” Read more »
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Highway Robbery
By Darwin BondGraham | December 20
How “public-private parternships” extract
private profit from public infrastructure projects. Read more »
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Campus Struggles Against Sweatshops Continue
By Sarah Blaskey and Phil Gasper | December 12
Indonesian workers and U.S. students fight back against Adidas. Read more »
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Structural Adjustment, Here and There
By Arthur MacEwan | December 6
Dear Dr. Dollar:
What are the similarities and differences between structural adjustment in the
rest of the world/Third World and structural adjustment in the United States? Read more »
Jobs, Deficits, and the Misguided Squabble over the Debt Ceiling.
By Tim Koechlin | August 5, 2011
Why the absurd squabble over the debt ceiling was distracting, destructive, and almost entirely beside the point. Read more »
Local Activism against Wal-Mart
Corporate Power, Wal-Mart and the Undermining of the Democratic Process
By Joel Harrison | April 13, 2011
Is the Wal-Mart Way the American Way?
By Martin J. Bennett | April 13, 2011
Why Is the Government Buying Long-Term Bonds?
By Alejandro Reuss | January 19, 2011
Questions and Answers on the Fed’s “QE2” program. Read more »
The Greatest Recovery, Part II
By Mark Provost | January 19, 2011
The Greatest Recovery in corporate profits and the Great Recession are two sides of the same coin. Read more »
The Greatest Recovery, Part I
By Mark Provost | December 16, 2010
The Greatest Recovery in corporate profits and the Great Recession are two sides of the same coin. Read more »
The Deficit Commission and Redistribution
By Darwin BondGraham | November 23, 2010
President Obama’s Deficit Commission has proposed a plan to rewrite the social contract, and to make the poor and middle class pay. Read more »
Laffer’s Latest Curve Ball
By John Miller | October 18, 2010
Arthur Laffer is peddling more of the same bad tax policy as he inveighs against Washington State Initiative 1098, which would tax state residents with incomes over $200,000. Read more »
The Jobs Crisis and the Art of Flexible Labor
By Dan DiMaggio | October 18, 2010
The bizarre experience that over 500 other workers in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area had recently sheds some light on the growing expectations of absolute “flexibility” if you want a job. Read more »
Arctic Power...with Added Cleansers
By Maurice Dufour | February 17, 2010
All the negative press over Canada’s dirty oil is taking its toll on our national psyche. For years, our self-image as responsible environmental stewards had made us smug; now Canada’s just another carbon thug. Read more »
Haiti’s Fault Lines: Made in the U.S.A.
By Marie Kennedy and Chris Tilly | February 4, 2010
Pace Pat Robertson, the devil had little to do with Haiti’s underdevelopment. Instead, the fingerprints of more mundane actors—France and later the United States—are all over the crime scene. Read more »
