What’s a Billion Dollars Look Like?
These big numbers a way beyond counting on your fingers – try a trillion With the surge in the number of billionaires around the world […]
wealth inequality
Wealth Inequality in the US
a fifty-year view. One of the central perspectives of my forthcoming book The Heist: how the rich and corporations stole the American dream and how […]
A “Decent” Federal Budget?
Paul Krugman, “What a Decent Budget Would Look Like” Paul Krugman’s recent post, “What a Decent Budget Would Look Like – Imagining a Congress that […]
A Different View of Krugman’s Data
Paul Krugman wrote a recent post, Is the Sleeping Giant Awakening about the EU. It inlcuded this chart showing the relative sizes of the economies […]
What is financialization and why does it matter? – part 3
Changes in Economic Policy and Regulation In two earlier posts, “What is financialization and why does it matter? – part 1” and “What is financialization […]
Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? – from the NYTimes
Ben Casselman wrote this piece in the 1.10.2025 NYTimes: “Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence?” The article cites […]
Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? – from the NYTimes
Ben Casselman wrote this piece in the 1.10.2025 NYTimes: “Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence?” The article cites […]
Thoughts on ending billionaire wealth – “Every billionaire is a policy failure”
The tsunami of billionaires that has washed across the planet over the last decade or so is troubling in the extreme. Now, we have the […]
American Compass – their conservative economics get it right, mostly
American Compass is a self-described think tank for conservative economics. From its Mission Statement page: “We are developing the conservative economic agenda to supplant blind […]
Book Review – Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divide by David Gibbs
Neoliberalism is the word most frequently used by commentators and academics when discussing the changes in the US economy over the past 50 years. For […]