Horror stories about private equity-owned hospitals are part of a deeper trend, a new book argues.
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Posted inNewsletter
The Capitalists Trying to Fix Capitalism
“Market humanism” is how the economy should work, argue Nick Hanauer and Eric Beinhocker.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
Another War, Another Excuse for Profiteering
Every energy crisis is a windfall for oil refiners—and consumers pay the price.
Posted inEconomy
The Dangers of AI and Extreme Wealth Inequality
A dramatic technological change makes the case for curbing extreme wealth even more formidable.
Posted inBooks
How the Left Lost the Working Class—and How to Win Them Back
To avoid becoming the foil for Right Populism, Left Populists need to respect working-class values of work, family, community, patriotism, and the aspiration for stability and security.
Posted inThe Monopolized Economy
How to Fix Our Dangerous Dependency on Foreign Ships and Save American Shipbuilding
A key issue is restoring the long-reviled Jones Act, which can once again help America rule the waves.
Posted inMagazine
The Secret to Reindustrializing America Is Not Tax Cuts and Tariffs. It’s Regulated Competition.
From airlines to energy, shipbuilding to railroads, America became a capitalist superpower in the 20th century based on careful market rules. It can do so again.
Posted inNovember/December 2023
The Great Reordering
There can be no doubt now that an epochal shift is underway in how the economy—in America and across the globe—is governed. The mystery is how a moderate, conventional politician like Joe Biden engineered it.
Posted inNovember/December 2023
What the Clinton Haters on the Left Get Wrong
A new book epitomizes the risible belief that the 42nd president betrayed liberals and the 1990s were a right-wing hellscape.
Posted inMagazine
Need a New Economic Vision? Gotcha Covered
The American Promise isn’t looking too promising to a lot of Americans. Many young people, especially those with a college education, think the country is basically irredeemable. In their view, it was founded on racism, sexism, and genocidal colonialism, and all the Framers’ fine words about equality of opportunity are sick jokes played on marginalized […]
