April 16, 2018

Economic Update: Distorting Economic Truths

Labor strikes at Disney; home sales and prices drop sharply; Nestle's approval to profit from privatizing water; UPS and FedEx profit from Trump's attack on Amazon and lies about the USPS; US poverty far worse than in other nations

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Economy

	Economic Update: Distorting Economic Truths

	OECD Advises Countries to Curb Extreme Inequality

	After the 2008 Financial Crisis, a State of 'Productive Incoherence' (1/2)

	After the 2008 Financial Crisis, a State of 'Productive Incoherence' (2/2)

	Economic Update: Beyond the Political Theater

	French Austerity Program Provokes Growing Wave of Worker and Student Strikes

	Economic Bubbles and the Myth of High Returns

	Wall Street Bankers' Executive Bonuses Highlight Worsening Inequality

	Finding a SALT Tax Deduction Workaround

	The Free Market Threat to Democracy

	Trump Privatizes America

	'Normalizing' Britain's Interest Rates by Raising Them May Slow Economy

	Unregulated Financial Markets Created a Stock Bubble

	Trump Budget: Reaganomics + Military Keynesianism = Deficit Boom

	The Rise and Fall of the Stock Market: What to Expect

	Public or Private Ownership of Banks: Which is More Efficient?

	Trump Tax Reform Targets High-Tax States, But There is a Way Out

	Corker's Tax Vote: Coincidence or Kickback?

	GOP Tax Bill: The Great American Heist

	A Green New Deal for Washington State

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Richard D. Wolff is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University in New York. He is the author of many books, including Democracy at Work: A Cure or Capitalism, and Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA.

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