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Why Isn’t the Price of Oil Even Higher?

Why Isn’t the Price of Oil Even Higher?

This is your economy on crack (spread)

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The Rise of the Measles-Industrial Complex

The Rise of the Measles-Industrial Complex

Why MAGA wants children to get sick and die

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The U.S. Healthcare System is Already Mostly Socialized

The U.S. Healthcare System is Already Mostly Socialized

And there’s nothing radical about wanting to end insurance company parasitism

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What Malta Tells Us About Oligarchy

Europe is weak on tax cheats. Trump is on their side

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Against Oligarchy, Part III: Taxing Capital vs. Taxing Labor

Against Oligarchy, Part III: Taxing Capital vs. Taxing Labor

How the American tax code has swung against workers, and why it matters

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Talking With G. Elliott Morris About the Midterms

Why he says this is a wave election.

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News of the Weak (Labor Market)

News of the Weak (Labor Market)

A note on this morning’s report

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Lying Liars Lie to Each Other Too

Lying Liars Lie to Each Other Too

A bad-faith government is also an incompetent government

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The Good News Trump Won’t Mention

The Good News Trump Won’t Mention

Crime is plunging, but he can’t handle that truth

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An Explosion of Misery

Making American hungry and uninsured again

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The Oligarchs are Doubling Down on Republicans

The Oligarchs are Doubling Down on Republicans

And Democrats should make the most of it

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How China Won the Iran War

How China Won the Iran War

Trump has shattered American power, and Beijing is picking up the pieces

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Geoeconomics, Part I: Ranking Economic Superpowers

Geoeconomics, Part I: Ranking Economic Superpowers

We’re #1! Or maybe #2. Or maybe …

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Silent Saturday

A peaceful, queasy feeling

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The Bond Market Doesn’t Like Bullshit

The Bond Market Doesn’t Like Bullshit

Why Kevin Warsh just bombed

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Reality is a Communist Plot

Reality is a Communist Plot

Of MAGA and the totalitarian mindset

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When the Chips Are Down

When the Chips Are Down

This feels like the end of the beginning

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The Putinization of the American Military

The Putinization of the American Military

When poseurs and yes-men run a war

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The Fire This Time

The willful ignorance, it burns

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Against Oligarchy, Part II: Wealth Taxes

Against Oligarchy, Part II: Wealth Taxes

Going where the money — and the power — is

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Talking Again With Gabriel Zucman

Oligarchy, wealth taxes, and more

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Quagmire of the Vanities

Quagmire of the Vanities

Why the world economy is still at risk from the Iran debacle

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Elon Musk, the New Hero of Populism

Elon Musk, the New Hero of Populism

The useful narcissism of the new class of oligarchs

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Oligarchy and the Media

Can the takeover be stopped?

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Oy, Canada Tariffs

Oy, Canada Tariffs

How to lose friends and influence nothing

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Trump’s War on the Future, Monetary Edition

Trump’s War on the Future, Monetary Edition

Trying to punish Brazil for adopting a better payment system

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Against Oligarchy, Part I: Progressive Taxation

Against Oligarchy, Part I: Progressive Taxation

The history and theory of taxes on the elite

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Lina Khan on AI and More

Talking with one of our sharpest minds on market power

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Trump Can’t Get No Respect

Trump Can’t Get No Respect

His biggest lie wasn’t about elections

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Democracy in an Age of Powermaxxing

Democracy in an Age of Powermaxxing

The billionaire backlash has finally arrived. But is it too late?