Economy 
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SOURCE: CNN
8/24/19
Under Trump, the deficit has ballooned, exploding a GOP myth
by Julian Zelizer
Once again, President Trump has exposed a myth in American politics. That myth? That Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility.
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8/25/19
Trump Has Blocked Wage Gains for American Workers
by Lawrence Wittner
Although the pundits say the U.S. economy is booming―and it certainly is for the country’s billionaires―it’s not doing much for the incomes of American workers.
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8/25/2019
The “Trump Economy”: Throwing the Grandkids under the Bus
by Walter G. Moss
The mismanagement of the environment, deficits, and debt will have an adverse effect on our children.
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SOURCE: Reclaim
3/21/19
An Economist with a Heart
by Hedrick Smith
Alan Krueger, the Princeton professor and economic adviser to two presidents who died last weekend, was one of those rare economists who break out of the ivory tower and plunge restlessly into the real world
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/9/19
A wall can’t solve America’s addiction to undocumented immigration
by Julia G. Young
For more than 70 years, undocumented immigrants have shaped the U.S. economy.
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12/2/18
Sure, the Economy’s Great Right Now, but that Doesn’t Mean Trump Deserves the Credit
by Robert Brent Toplin
Usually it takes four or five years for the effects of flawed policy-making to become broadly evident.
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11/18/18
The Striking and Disturbing Parallel Between the 1930s and Our Own Time
by Tom Krentzin
In the wake of economic turmoil leaders exploited deep fears on their way to power.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
7-30-18
The Ugly Side of Poland’s Booming Economy
“The problem is that young people get used to hate speech. Some people don’t like chips, some people hate Coca-Cola—and some people hate the Jews.”
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7/29/18
Let’s Tax the Rich
by Lawrence Wittner
The public thinks they’re taxed too little and history shows the economy benefits when taxes are higher.
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SOURCE: History channel
6-15-18
Are We Living in the Gilded Age 2.0 ?
by Edward T. O’Donnell
The original Gilded Age was followed by the Progressive Era. Will ours?
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SOURCE: New Republic
6-13-18
Lessons From the Gilded Age
by Sarah Jones
America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?
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SOURCE: Fortune
6-7-18
Trump Says 'This Is the Greatest Economy in the History of America.'
No, Eisenhower's probably was.
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12-3-17
The Case for Massive Corporate Tax Cuts Is Flawed
by James Livingston
In theory, it makes perfect sense. In practice, it’s made for disaster since 1983.
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SOURCE: NYT
4-8-17
The Myth of Main Street
by Louis Hyman
Don’t listen to President Trump. Going back to the good old days will cost us.
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2-12-17
Trump Is Right that Trade Has Cost Jobs. But His Solution Is Terrible.
by Louis Ferleger and Jay Mandle
What’s he’s done is pit low-wage workers in the USA against lower-wage workers in foreign countries. This is an old trick.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
1-30-17
Our history shows there’s a dark side to ‘Buy American’
by Dana Frank
Campaigns urging us to buy U.S.-made products are as old as the republic, but they are often shrouded in racism.
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SOURCE: NYT
1-17-17
Presidents Have Less Power Over the Economy Than You Might Think
We associate presidents with eras - and eras with strong or weak economies. But the reality is more complicated.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
12-28-16
What History Has to Say About the Economy Trump Will Inherit
The economy was stronger in 2016 than several previous election years.
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4-24-16
What Happened to America’s Good Jobs?
by Louis Ferleger and Matthew Lavallee
The world of work is much different today than in the postwar Golden Age when good jobs built the American middle class.
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SOURCE: Fortune
2-16-16
Why Hamilton—Not Jefferson—Is the Father of the American Economy
by Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong
The United States we have today is not Jefferson’s, but Hamilton’s. Why? Because once the Hamiltonian system was set, it stuck. It worked.
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