My Children Will Be Better Off Than Me – a series on American values
A cherished part of our national culture has long been the belief that parents can improve their children’s future through better education, hard work, and […]
wealth inequality
The K-shaped world we live in – the top 20% are doing well, everyone else, not so good….
My research into the enormous explosion of wealth and income inequality in the US over the past fifty years be summarized as the $79 trillion […]
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 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 […]