Trickle-Down

This concluding part narrates the circumstances in which market triumphed over state and spread from developed economies to developing economies, helping the top 1% to accumulate more wealth at the cost of the rest 99%The 'Golden era of Capitalism' that economic historians talk about was the quarter century after World…

If you’re like me, once or twice in your life you have jolted awake from the edge of sleep wondering, How exactly does the government pay for the military? As we all know, the military is an expensive endeavor. In 2019, its budget was $716 billion, an increase of $80…

Courtesy photo Peter Oppenheimer is chief global equity strategist and head of macro research of global investment research at Goldman Sachs in Europe. Oppenheimer explains how investment cycles have occurred in consistent six-year cycles since 1880, almost unaffected of economic influences such ebbs and flows in inflation, collapses of major…

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Oregon’s Democratic Senator Ron Wyden recently introduced a bill (S.3684) that uses the coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to throw another $10.6 billion into the Forest Service budget.  That’s on top of the $5.7 billion Congress already appropriated to the agency this year and comes out to a whopping $45 million a day,…

Jasmine Arbery, sister of Ahmaud Arbery (R) and Wanda Cooper-Jones, Ahmaud's mother, comfort one ... another while people gather to honor Ahmaud at Sidney Lanier Park on May 9, 2020 in Brunswick, Georgia. Arbery was shot and killed while jogging in the nearby Satilla Shores neighborhood on February 23. (Photo…

The COVID-19 pandemic further rubbishes the idea that austerity is an appropriate economic response, writes Professor John Quiggin. OVER THE COURSE of this pandemic, I’ve been looking at zombie ideas in economics and the threat they pose. These are ideas that should have been killed by the evidence against them that has accumulated…

An architect fighting for Main Street retail and his design firm dares to question the myth.Pexel: Free to use. No attribution required.Up until around March 10th, 2020, my career path looked like one long road. And my daily routine was similar to that of a roadie managing a band, or…

Grocery store clerks. Fast-food cashiers. Hospice care workers. Bus drivers. Farmworkers. Along with doctors and nurses, these are the people who are putting their own lives at risk to keep our society functioning day in and out amid the worst crisis of our lifetimes. We call them heroes, we label…