US economy

You can’t make America great again by wrecking the government. By James K. Galbraith Mar 19, 2025 What to make of the blur of news, revolutionary rhetoric,...

By Nick Beams 25 November 2024 The semi-annual Financial Stability Report issued by the US Federal Reserve last week has again illustrated how relatively small incidents...

Author(s): Lichtenstein, Nelson Stein, Judith Reviewer(s): Galbraith, James K. Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein. A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University...

by Michael Hudson March 13, 2023 The collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy...

By Patrick Martin Feb. 28/2021 In a social disaster now entering its fourth day, as many as 4.5 million people have been hit by rolling blackouts...

John Kenneth Galbraith was an intellectual celebrity 50 years ago—and it would be a mistake to ignore him today January 15, 2021 U.S. President-elect Joe...

On November 3, Vote to End Attacks on Science Choosing Donald Trump for president is choosing fiction over fact—a fatal mistake October 9, 2020 Instead of thinking...

"With the us economy performing so very badly, as it has been doing for such an extended period, the bipartisan political establishment and its...

by Helen Buyniski 16 Mar, 2020 The coronavirus containment measures the US has (belatedly, reluctantly) taken are revealing enormous fissures in its first-world facade, from legions...

By Michael Hudson March 22 2020 Cross posted from the Washington Post. Michael Hudson, author of “… and forgive them their debts” and “Killing the Host,” is...