Category Archives: Politics
Trump’s Bungled Pandemic Response Has Badly Damaged Americans’ Incomes
Donald Trump may have normalized cognitive dissonance for many of his supporters and some young people. But wishing away the…Continue reading
Is the May Unemployment Report a Case of Lying Statistics?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) surprised the markets and most economists Friday with an announcement that the unemployment rate…Continue reading
The Economy Will Not Cooperate with Trump’s Re-Election
It is not surprising that the Trump administration’s top economist promised this week that huge, historic gains in jobs and…Continue reading
The Official Unemployment Numbers Are Technically Fake News
April’s 14.7 percent unemployment rate, announced by the Labor Department last Friday, is awful by any standard. The official tally…Continue reading
How Much Trump Has Cost Americans in this Pandemic
Most of the economic carnage we see Americans suffer today is the result of measures that federal, state, and local…Continue reading
The Threat the Coronavirus Poses to the Economy
In 2005, the National Science Foundation, World Bank and other American and global organizations convened to discuss the threat of…Continue reading
An Affordable Approach to Universal Coverage
A majority of Americans and virtually all Democrats believe in universal healthcare coverage and the federal government’s responsibility to make…Continue reading
Trump Acts Like a Populist. His Regulatory Record Suggests Otherwise
The administration has consistently favored big businesses over average people. by Robert J. Shapiro At some point, every president has had…Continue reading
How much credit does Donald Trump deserve on the economy?…
Presidents deserve credit on the economy when their policy changes leave most people better off by creating conditions that stimulate…Continue reading
The Other Dark Cloud on the President’s Horizon Is a…
Even as Donald Trump struggles with the multiple investigations of his personal business and political dealing and those of his…Continue reading