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Oligarchy and the Great Evasion

Oligarchy and the Great Evasion

The tax gap: What it is and why it matters

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Talking Interest Rates with Ricardo Caballero

Are U.S. bonds still the ultimate safe asset?

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Make Geography Great Again

What’s in a name?

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Biden Derangement Syndrome

Biden Derangement Syndrome

Even the Trump sycophants realize that they’re in big trouble

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Der Untergang

How badly will Trump punish America?

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Losing the Iran War: The Economic Front

Losing the Iran War: The Economic Front

The D in Bessent’s “D-Day” stands for Dud

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The Moose That Roared

The Moose That Roared

Why Trump will lose his war with Canada

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Debt and Tax Cuts

Debt and Tax Cuts

How did U.S. debt get so big? The answer may surprise you

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Jared Bernstein on Debt

How worried should we be?

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Defending the Bonds

I am reporting for duty

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Scott Bessent Fails to Gaslight the Market

Scott Bessent Fails to Gaslight the Market

What doth it profit a man if he sell his soul and can’t even manipulate the 30-year?

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The Case Against Bond Market Panic

The Case Against Bond Market Panic

Don’t let the Very Serious People undermine a progressive agenda — again

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What Are Bond Markets Telling Us?

What Are Bond Markets Telling Us?

Interest rates are up — but don’t panic

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A New Level of Trumpian Evil

A New Level of Trumpian Evil

North Korea is the worst government on Earth; Trump prefers it to the prosperous democracy next door

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The Misery Will Continue Until Morale Improves

Why Trump is eviscerating the military

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Demography, Deportations and the Trump Stall

Demography, Deportations and the Trump Stall

Why the American jobs machine is sputtering

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Vanessa Williamson on Taxes and Democracy

What tax history teaches us about this dire moment

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The Case for a Medicare Buy-In Option

The Case for a Medicare Buy-In Option

Mandates vs options: The good, the bad, and the feasible

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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