Economics

We Need a Guns and Butter Debate Over the Costs of the Iran War

Michael Hudson May 1, 2026

Lessons for Everyone from the Irish Farmer Protests

Anthony Pahnke May 1, 2026

Will Gravity Pull Down the AI Bubble?

Dean Baker April 30, 2026

We Don’t Need Billionaires, and We Can Structure the Market So We Don’t Have Them

Dean Baker April 24, 2026

Are Republicans Killing You?

Dean Baker April 23, 2026

Inflation is a Process

Dean Baker April 17, 2026

How to Make Housing More Affordable

Algernon Austin April 16, 2026

Public Education, Racial Inequality and the Struggle for Democracy: an Interview With Jonathan Kozol

Claire Kelley April 14, 2026

The News on Prices and Consumption is Not Good

Dean Baker April 10, 2026

Private Equity Gets the Green Light to Raid Workers’ Retirement Accounts

Eileen Appelbaum April 10, 2026

The Existential Crisis of Mainstream Economics

Walden Bello March 30, 2026

Private Equity Killed My Thrift Store

Sarah Anderson February 26, 2026

Trump’s 2026 SOTU Speech: Economic Obfuscation and Political Theater

Jack Rasmus February 25, 2026

Trump’s Politics and a Declining US Capitalism in 2026

Richard D. Wolff February 11, 2026

Trump’s Incompetence Left of Thousands in Red States Without Power

Dean Baker February 6, 2026

Is Trump’s Pledge to Rein in Private Equity for Real?

Peter Hart January 30, 2026

Finance, Not Trade, Runs the Global Economy

Imran Khalid January 28, 2026

Imagining the End of Capitalism

Walden Bello January 27, 2026

Once They Fed the World, Now American Farmers Are on the Brink, With Declining Federal Aid

Peter Simons January 21, 2026

Exporters Aren’t Eating the Tariffs, We Are

Dean Baker January 20, 2026

The Billionaires and the November Elections

Dean Baker January 15, 2026

A Gradual Weakening of the Economy

Dean Baker January 12, 2026

Private Equity in the Doldrums and Out of Favor With Some Institutional Investors

Eileen Appelbaum January 9, 2026

Fraud, Drugs, and Hope for 2026

Dean Baker January 5, 2026

Policymakers Must Address Earnings Instability

Julia Yixia Cai December 31, 2025

How Many Manufacturing Jobs Has Trump Actually Lost?

Dean Baker December 24, 2025

Trump Economy: One Doll, But Multiple Jobs

Dean Baker December 22, 2025

In Search of Trump’s Booming Economy

Dean Baker December 12, 2025

Starbucks Ignores Workers Demands at Its Peril

Sonali Kolhatkar November 26, 2025

Inherited Economies

Dean Baker November 20, 2025

How the IMF and US Helped Loot and Entrap Argentina with Debt

Thomas Palley October 15, 2025

Can Democrats Win Back the Rust Belt?

Jared Abbott October 14, 2025

The Fast Food Index is Looking Bleak

Dean Baker October 2, 2025

Living on the Streets in the Age of Trump

Mattea Kramer - Sean Fogler September 12, 2025

Understanding Inequality Across History

David S. D’Amato August 22, 2025
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