Category: Economy
Slow Burn: Bernie Sanders Ignites a Populist Movement
by Rick Perlstein | Oct 8, 2015 | Economy, PoliticsArt: Edel Rodriguez Nate Silver has the Bernie Sanders campaign figured out. Ignore what happens in Iowa and New Hampshire, the “data-driven” prognostication wizard wrote back in July, when Sanders was polling a healthy 30 percent to Clinton’s 46 percent in both contests. That’s only, Silver says, because “Democratic caucus-goers in Iowa and Democratic primary voters in […]
How Redlining Led to Rioting
by Richard Rothstein | Jun 15, 2015 | Economy, PoliticsA pattern has emerged—in Oakland, New York, Cleveland, Baltimore, the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, and beyond. Police claiming to feel threatened kill unarmed black men. Protests follow, sometimes including violence. The Department of Justice finds a pattern and practice of racially-biased policing. The city agrees to train officers not to use excessive force, […]
Why ‘Free Trade’ Treaties Destroy Jobs
by Robert E. Scott | Jun 1, 2015 | Economy, PoliticsRecently, the president claimed that critics who say that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “is bad for working families … don’t know what they are talking about.” Skeptics would respond, “Show me the money. Show me the jobs and wages you’re going to generate for working Americans. Explain how the TPP is going to be […]
One Nation Divided by Wealth
by David Cay Johnston | Dec 1, 2014 | EconomyGovernment policy is the wedge dividing the very richest from everyone else in America. The gap between the have-mores and have-nots will narrow and widen now and then as the economy contracts and expands, but over the long run, this chasm will become ever wider unless we change current government rules. As Eric Schneiderman, […]
Under the Wheel of Capitalism
by William T. Vollmann | Dec 1, 2014 | Books, EconomyGermany, 1918: “A scraggly band of child rebels, we met secretly in attics … We were taught by men who claimed they were deserters from the navy to hate the rich, to tell the poor they must rise in a body and fight …” U.S.A., 2014: “I know a lot of people think that […]