Recent Commentary

Cryptocurrency: Interview with Gerald Epstein

Gerald Epstein

Commentary — July 2025

Crypto: What Is It and What Is the Fuss All About?

Gerald Epstein

Commentary — July 2025

Wages, Employment, and Immigration

Arthur MacEwan

Commentary — July 2025

Better Wages and Working Conditions: The Workers Will Come

Arthur MacEwan

Commentary — July 2025

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

Nancy Folbre

Commentary — July 2025

New Report Documents Racist Rot at the Core of the Petrochemical Industry

Michael Ash

Commentary — July 2025

Decades of Neoliberalism Entrenched U.S. Inequality. Trump’s Budget Made it Worse.

Robert Pollin

Commentary — July 2025

Some Elements of a Progressive International Trade Policy

Arthur MacEwan

Commentary — July 2025

No Matter How You Look at It, the Big, Beautiful Bill Is a Monstrosity

John Miller

Commentary — July 2025

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