The Trump administration says its new tariffs are aimed at combating forced labor. But the countries with the highest rates of modern slavery are largely exempt, while countries with the lowest rates are being hit with tariffs. So what are the tariffs really targeting?
Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929.
making sense Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible / What Does the U.S. Want in Africa?
in review Jim Hightower: There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Armadillos / Michael Moore: The Big One / Viviana A. Selizer: The Social Meaning of Money
economy in numbers The Super Rich are Out of Sight
