Extreme budget hawks see very deficit as a dire existential threat. A journalist sent me some questions about MMT. My answers are below.
Very few of the people complaining about the steel tariffs actually are committed to free trade.
A majority of Americans, according to the polls, oppose the proliferation of US military interventions abroad.
(Economic Policy Institute) Wages have finally recovered from the blow of the Great Recession but are still growing too slowly and unequally.
Corporate America is clearly putting on a public relations show to thank the Republicans who pushed through the tax cut.
The soaring price of Bitcoin is a useful lesson about markets for people who seem to very quickly forget the last lesson. Bitcoin, a digital algorithm, backed by absolutely nothing, has been selling for more than $16,000.
"The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire" by Stephen Kinzer (Henry Holt and Co., 2017, 304 pp.)
Various polls find less than a quarter of Americans back the new tax plan.
To be successful Democrats must address the forces that created Trump.
