Category Archives: Globalization
Memo to Democrats: U.S. Workers could be Big Winners in…
President Obama’s drive to complete new open trade agreements with the European Union and 11 Pacific Rim nations are the…Continue reading
Unravelling America’s Problems with Incomes, Inequality and Upward Mobility
President Obama deserves at least two cheers for his recent economic address. In an unusually clear-eyed assessment of how the…Continue reading
Why Corporate Tax Reform Is So Desirable–and So Hard to…
In a political environment most notable today for its partisan trench warfare, serious conversations across party lines are nonetheless taking…Continue reading
Will Tea Party Insanity Cost America $3 trillion and 2.75…
The budget and debt end games are still playing themselves out on Capitol Hill; and judging by its current behavior,…Continue reading
As the Economy Improves, Give Some Credit to Globalization
The economic news and data have turned distinctly upbeat. With unemployment down, consumer confidence up, and personal debt back to…Continue reading
The President’s Budget and the Case for Moving Beyond Austerity
The President released his FY 2014 budget today, and right off, it makes more economic sense than most of what…Continue reading
Why We All Have to Worry about Cyprus
With Europe's brazen mismanagement this week of the banking collapse in Cyprus, the Euro crisis moved closer to farce and,…Continue reading
Dark Thoughts on the Coming Sequester
This week’s bout over federal spending pits Tea Party militants, conservative pundits and most Republican office holders against the President,…Continue reading
The New Nihilism in the Debate over the Debt Ceiling
For decades, fiscal conservatives have used congressional debates over raising the debt limit to vent their frustrations with big government.…Continue reading
Modest Progress on the Deficit Is Just What the U.S.…
One argument nearly entirely absent in the debate over the fiscal cliff issues is the effect on the economy. True,…Continue reading