economic policy
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On inflation, inequality, and hungry ghosts.
Inflation might gobble fortunes, all because power people don’t think that workers should be paid more.
Brad DeLong, capitalism, cartel behavior, consumer spending, consumerism, corporate profits, cost of living, currency, economic policy, economics, economies, ending inflation, explanation of inflation, Ezra Klein, food prices, Food Prices Soar, fuel costs, gold standard, inequality, inflation, interest rates, J. Bradford DeLong, monetary policy, monopoly power, pandemic response, rising prices, salaries, salary increases, shipping costs, United States inflation, wage increases, wages, what causes inflation
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On free-market capitalism, political spending, and Jane Mayer’s ‘Dark Money.’
Everybody knew that politicians could be bought… well, academics can be, too.
campaign finance, climate change, Dark Money, David Koch, economic policy, environmental regulations, Evicted, fiscal policy, free markets, global warming, government intervention, Jane Mayer, Koch brothers, libertarianism, Matthew Desmond, negative externalities, political spending, progressive taxation, Robert Reich, Saving Capitalism, subsidies for the rich, tax, tragedy of the commons
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