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I’m serious – don’t pay attention to early voting.

 

Inflation is a problem for politicians. Unfortunately for them, it's not a problem they know how to solve.

Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding. It can be a useful tool for policymaking, but it’s become the only tool. It’s time for economics to back the hell off.

Economic barriers between countries are growing. The world is less "flat" than it used to be, in the sense of being a free-fire zone for capitalist trade and investment with negligible barriers to surmount at borders. It is more "multipolar", in the sense of differentiated political and economic networks, each with its own centre or centres. How far has this gone? What, in more exact terms, are the trends? What should socialists make of it?

BG1109: Creating a Better Social Security System for America

Liz Truss’s focus on increasing GDP over all other goals promotes an economics of deception.

Joseph Mendola of Warner has a degree in political science with a minor in economics. Inflation is inflicting more pain on working people in America. So says Federal Reserve Chairperson Jerome Powell. The pain is coming from the inflation that the...

Liz Truss’s focus on increasing GDP over all other goals promotes an economics of deception.

How microeconomic reasoning took over the very institutions of American governance.