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EconomicsMay 27, 2021
Does Bitcoin’s Recent Crash Spell the Beginning of the End for Cryptocurrencies?
China’s warnings on the use of digital currencies suggest that the long-awaited official-sector crackdown has begun—and it’s a good thing too.
Marshall Auerback
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EconomyFebruary 17, 2021
What the Congressional Budget Office Doesn’t Get
About a $15-an-hour minimum wage, unemployment, and why a low-wage economy is bad for everyone.
Marshall Auerback and Albena Azmanova
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EconomyJanuary 28, 2021
It’s the Economic Precarity, Stupid
Economic inequality is a symptom of a broader problem that, if left unaddressed, will trigger more radicalization.
Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback
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PoliticsNovember 27, 2020
Janet Yellen at Treasury Is One of Biden’s Best Appointments
As a former head of the Federal Reserve and economic adviser to the White House, she is uniquely qualified to take on the current challenges, but she must ensure that the new normal does not represent a return to the old status quo.
Marshall Auerback
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Election 2020November 13, 2020
2020 Was the ‘Precarity Election’
Democrats’ failure to address the issue of economic precarity undermines their claim to be the party of the working class.
Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback
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Supreme CourtOctober 22, 2020
It’s ‘Court Reform,’ Not Court Packing
But whatever they call it, Democrats should embrace fixing a Supreme Court that has become an unaccountable legislature in all but name.
Marshall Auerback
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Election 2020September 29, 2020
Amid Trump’s Wreckage, Democrats Have New Opportunities—if They Seize Them
Turn Trump’s 2016-winning rhetoric against him to ensure victory in 2020.
Marshall Auerback
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Election 2020August 28, 2020
Time for Democratic Deficit Hawks to Go the Way of the Dodo
Try as they may, Democrats still can’t help being the party of deficit fetishism.
Marshall Auerback
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Election 2020March 4, 2020
Democrats Need to Learn From Boris Johnson’s Success, Not Jeremy Corbyn’s Failure
The party has drawn the wrong lessons from the recent UK election and ignores the truth at its collective peril.
Marshall Auerback
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BudgetsDecember 24, 2019
Letters From the January 13/20, 2020, Issue
Is a deficit really a strength?… Sharp quills (web only)…
Our Readers, Marshall Auerback and Donna Minkowitz