Red states are the biggest “takers” of federal funding.
Economy
Reporting and analysis on the American economy and economic policy: how markets, monopolies, and public policy shape jobs, wages, and opportunity. Includes our long-running coverage of antitrust and corporate power in The Monopolized Economy.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2015, Politics
America’s Forgotten Formula for Economic Equality
A signature moment in the first Democratic presidential debate was when CNN moderator Anderson Cooper asked Bernie Sanders how he could hope to win the general election as an avowed “democratic socialist.” The Vermont senator had a ready answer. Being a democratic socialist, he said, is about “saying that it is immoral and wrong” that […]
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, November/December 2015
The Second Racial Wealth Gap
White Millennials can often rely on their parents for financial assistance. For many black and Hispanic Millennials it’s the other way around.
Posted inCover, Economy, Magazine, November/December 2015, The Monopolized Economy
Bloom and Bust
Regional inequality is out of control. Here’s how to reverse it.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Magazine, November/December 2015
Why Denver, Nashville, and Boston Are Booming
Want your city to flourish? Just make it the seat of state government!
Posted inBooks, Economy, Government, Magazine, November/December 2015
The Invisible Scam
What if corporate deceptions, like Volkswagen’s rigged emissions testing, are not aberrations from, but consequences of, the free market system?
Posted inBooks, Economy, Government, Magazine, November/December 2015, Politics
Federal Reserved
With a still-weak economy seven years after the 2008 crisis, it’s worth thinking about whether we might be stuck with a twentieth-century central bank in a twenty-first-century world.
Posted inEconomy
The GOP’s Flat Tax Folly
Don’t believe candidates’ claims. A flat tax is anything but fair.
Posted inEconomy, Government
Don’t Rush to Regulate Drones
Too hasty an approach could stifle innovation.
Posted inEconomy
Americans’ Precarious Financial Lives
60 percent of Americans have struggled with a financial emergency in the last year, says new research from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
