The principal sources of the affordability crisis are less consumer goods and more childcare, health care, and education. The Left’s response to that crisis should focus on universal, solidaristic, and visible social programs.
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From Nixon’s wage controls to today’s interest rate hikes, the fight against inflation has targeted labor.
Stealing away democracy as midterms approach
The simultaneous economic sanctions on Iran and Canada will make everything you buy cost more—if we’re lucky. Administration actions in the past couple of years have been almost deliberately designed to raise prices.
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America’s current credit rating masks a fatal contradiction, and a downgrade is the only honest assessment of an empire in decline. The expanding war in Iran and the subsequent crisis in the Strait of Hormuz have fractured global energy supply chain
US workers are finding it difficult to afford basic necessities as the president claims ‘the economy is roaring back’
Nearly $2 trillion of wealth has evaporated from the global crypto market since October. Outside of crimes and scams, the technology is useless, and its economics are even worse.
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