18+ hour, 24+ min ago  (553+ words) Jeff and Deb Hansen spend hundreds of thousands to keep the state friendly to their business. The Iowa Pork Queen stands near the Iowa Pork Producers Association tent at the Iowa State Fair in August 2019. Jeff and Deb Hansen are…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (273+ words) The former Harvard president and Treasury secretary has resigned over humiliating disclosures in the Epstein files. But will that be enough to keep an ardent neoliberal down? At the austerity pulpit: Former treasury secretary Larry Summers delivers the laudation for…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (190+ words) The economic force is often seen as a barometer for a nation's mood and health. But have we misunderstood it all along? Donald Trump holds a big and a small box of Tic Tac to illustrate inflation outcome during a…...

7+ mon, 3+ day ago  (252+ words) In contrast with the now sober-seeming Reaganites, Trump has taken credit for the economy from day one. Well, as Marx famously noted in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Hegel remarked somewhere that great personalities reappear, but "he forgot to…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (822+ words) When Trump talks of turning the economy around, he speaks the truth'he just gets the direction of change wrong. When Donald Trump campaigned on making America great again, not many of us realized he was talking about the 1970s. That was…...

8+ mon, 19+ hour ago  (523+ words) America is being hollowed out by an extractive economy. Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" just passed both chambers of Congress. It slashes over $1 trillion from Medicaid and cuts anti-hunger programs by $295 billion, all while delivering tax breaks where 72 percent of all…...