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A Perfect Economic Storm

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
If Trump needed one more calamity less than three weeks before the election, the financial house of cards is tottering.

Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?

Adam Gopnik The New Yorker
Our history too often sidesteps the question of finances. But sonorous ideals don’t keep an army supplied with uniforms, guns, and grub.

The Cost of Children Is Too Damn High

Nancy Folbre Dollars & Sense
Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.
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