Les Leopold: The Rust Belt Survey
The survey was designed by the Center for Working Class Politics, the Rutgers LEARN labor education program, and the Labor Institute, where I work.
Ellen Brown: How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part I: The Fed’s Hidden Drain
The Fed has issued trillions of dollars in reserves to save the banks, its real constituents. Would it do that to save the government?
Don’t Let Wall Street Gamble with Your Golden Years
Private equity firms want your retirement savings — and the Trump administration wants to help them.
Israel Is Trying To Collapse the Palestinian Authority. The First Step Is Destroying the Palestinian Economy
As countries around the world recognize a Palestinian state, Israel is doing everything it can to prevent the possibility of any future state. One way it plans on doing that…
What Trump’s Executive Order on 401(K)s Means for Workers Who Hope to Retire
More workers may lose their hard-won retirement savings now that Trump has pushed them toward crypto and private equity.
Michael Hudson: Trump Attacks Europe, Korea, Japan, Forcing Them To Subsidize & Move Industry to US
Trump plans to reverse U.S. de-industrialization by targeting allies like Europe, South Korea, and Japan, forcing them to subsidize and move key industries to the USA, argues economist Michael Hudson.
It Would Be Fine to Help Make Mexico a Happy Place
With the promise of the Mexican revolution and the sweeping reforms of cardenismo long erased by decades of neoliberalism and dependency, can Morena’s Fourth Transformation restore dignity and sovereignty to…
Eurasia Realigns in Face of Late-Stage Barbarism: Michael Hudson on New Post-Western World Order
At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China, Eurasia discussed a new international economic order based on mutually beneficial trade and investment, writes economist Michael Hudson.
Voters Again Shown to Prefer Populism Over Neoliberal ‘Abundance’ Agenda in New Research
"Majorities of Democrats and independents and two in five Republicans believe the outsized power of billionaires and corporations in our government is a bigger problem than red tape and bureaucracy."
Labor Day Special: Trump Goes Socialist
Now President Trump is taking it to the next level by acquiring 10 percent of Intel’s stock in exchange for the $8.9 billion the government is providing the company via…
How Does China’s System Really Work? Renowned Scholar Zhang Weiwei Explains the ‘China Model’
How do China’s government, political system, and socialist market economy work? How does it see democracy? Prominent Chinese academic Zhang Weiwei explains in this sit-down interview with Ben Norton.
House Report Warns Trump Tariffs Could Stymie US Manufacturing for ‘Years to Come’
Democrats on the Joint Economic Committee said that "continued uncertainty" caused by the president's policies could reduce manufacturing investments by nearly half a trillion dollars by the end of this…
US-Based Companies Announce Record Number of Impending Layoffs
"DOGE Actions" was the number one reason cited by employers for their planned job cuts.
Trump Doesn’t Like Jobs Numbers, Fires Head of Labor Stats
Economist Dean Baker says Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner is a “five alarm fire.”
How the World Can Free Itself From US Financial Colonialism: Economist Michael Hudson Explains
Economist Michael Hudson describes how the Western powers designed the international system to benefit North American corporations at the expense of the Global South, and how they can resist US…