Recent Commentary

What’s Different About Today’s Government Deficit and Debt?

Robert Pollin

Commentary — July 2025

No Tax on Tips

John Miller

Commentary — June 2025

Trump Is Setting the U.S. Economy up for Another Great Financial Crisis

Gerald Epstein

Commentary — June 2025

The Stealthy Strategy to Strangle Medicaid

Nancy Folbre

Commentary — June 2025

Understanding Inequality in China

Vamsi Vakulabharanam

Commentary — May 2025

Mutual Assured Development Destruction

Jayati Ghosh

Commentary — May 2025

Reimagining Democracy: Beyond GDP and Economic Growth

James K. Boyce

Commentary — May 2025

A Fraction of What We Pay in Fossil Fuel Subsidies Could Fund a Just Transition

Robert Pollin

Commentary — May 2025

Climate Policy on Thin Ice: A Lesson from Canada

James K. Boyce and Olivier Bradley

Commentary — May 2025

What Does Trump’s Economic Chaos Mean for the Global Financial System?

Gerald Epstein

Commentary — May 2025

Can the Green Transition Work for Workers?

Robert Pollin

Commentary — April 2025

The Impact of Tariffs on Local and Global Economies

Gerald Epstein

Commentary — April 2025

Trump’s Tariffs Buck the Global Neoliberal Order — But Still Serve the 1 Percent

James K. Boyce

Commentary — April 2025

Noam Chomsky and the Socialist Alternative to Climate Chaos

Robert Pollin

Commentary — March 2025

Trump’s Plan for Gaza Would Make Plunder Great Again

James K. Boyce

Commentary — March 2025

The Failure of Global Finance Is Systemic

Jane D'Arista

Commentary — March 2025

What Do Trump’s Tariffs Really Mean for the U.S. Working Class?

Robert Pollin

Commentary — February 2025

Public Banking in the Age of Trump: Needed More than Ever but Can it Find a Beachhead?

Gerald Epstein

Commentary — February 2025

Data on Corporate Pollution and Emissions Now Threatened Under Trump

Michael Ash

Commentary — February 2025

There’s Much to Say About Economics of War, but Most Economists Won’t Address It

James K. Boyce and C.J. Polychroniou

Commentary — January 2025