Thursday, April 3, 2025

Tag: economy

Major economic warning sign: The Euro is heading for parity with...

“As I have warned so many times, the coming crisis is going to hit Europe first, and the United States will join the party not too long after.”

Trump’s Chinese scapegoat

If Trump continues down his current path, the US economy will suffer.

Why liberal states won America’s tax experiment

Economic success depends on tax revenues that go into public investments, and regulations that protect the environment and public health.

Will Trump’s US trade representative be another Pro-NAFTA, Pro-TPP type?

If Trump is considering this guy as USTR for real it would just show us one more betrayal of his campaign promises.

The man in the bathtub, December 1, 1940

The 1930s were a rough time for all who labored... Or sought work.

What the robots are doing to the middle class

We will need a guaranteed income, ideally through guaranteed jobs, with the implementation of a financial transaction tax, and with a commitment to alternative energy infrastructure development.

Mike Pence sees a ‘real opportunity’ to gut health care for...

Trump’s White House will likely go along with efforts to block grant Medicaid.

Meet the six big banks keeping private prisons in business

Without these institutions, The GEO Group and CoreCivic would be in trouble—which is what advocates for divestment want.

Trump agrees to pay $25 million in Trump U fraud settlement

The $25 million settlement was reached just days before Trump would have been required to testify in one of the California class-action lawsuits against him.

The Koch connection

Donald Trump is not the only — or even the biggest — real and present danger to our democratic republic.

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GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax giveaway for the...

Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.

You deserve our hatred Elon. Your budget cuts are killing people.

Could Elon and his savage cuts to USAID. cause a subsequent resurgence of drug resistant TB?

Women and workers voting in Wisconsin Supreme Court race defeat the richest man in...

This election may signal the beginnings of a backlash against the Trump regime.

67,000 could die waiting for benefits under Musk’s Social Security cuts, Sanders report warns

Sanders warns that Elon Musk’s plan to slash Social Security staffing could double disability claim wait times and deaths, as Trump nominee faces Senate vote.

Since 1975, $79 trillion has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top...

Has this massive redistribution, driven by policies favoring corporations and the wealthy, reshaped the American economy?