US Economic Policy
Gary Cohn Said He Will Resign as Trump’s Top Economic Adviser
By KATE KELLY and MAGGIE HABERMAN
MARCH 6, 2018
Gary D. Cohn, President Trump’s top economic adviser, said on Tuesday that he would resign, becoming the...
Lori Wallach and Michael Hudson Debate Trump’s Plan to Impose Steel...
March 6, 2018
Ryan Criticizes Tariff Plan as Trump Issues Nafta Threat
By ANA SWANSON
MARCH 5, 2018
WASHINGTON — Paul D. Ryan, the Republican House speaker, criticized...
Ten Years After the Crisis, Banks Win Big in Trump’s Washington
Industry execs-turned-regulators are undoing Obama-era rules.
By Robert Schmidt and Jesse Hamilton
9/2/2018
In early February, with the Treasury secretary testifying about wild gyrations in the stock...
Trump, Macron: same fight
By Thomas Piketty
It is customary to contrast Trump and Macron: on one hand the vulgar American businessman with his xenophobic tweets and global warming...
A Global Tax Counter-Revolution
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
Many people around the globe treat Trump essentially as a clown (they are often those who called upon us to take him...
Chancellor Philip Hammond attacks Donald Trump’s tax cuts
The Chancellor is joining other European finance ministers in expressing concerns about the US President's plans.
By Jon Craig
Philip Hammond has risked a new row...
Trump: Everything for the rich!
Senate Republicans Pass Sweeping Tax Bill
By JIM TANKERSLEY, THOMAS KAPLAN
and ALAN RAPPEPORT
WASHINGTON — The Senate passed the most sweeping tax rewrite in decades early...
Steve Bannon’s Apocalyptic ‘Unravelling’
From the Archive: Ousted White House strategist Steve Bannon was a perplexing mix of populist, operative and opportunist, but his political theories crossed into...
The Political Economy of Obama/Trump | by Richard D. Wolff
US capitalism is again careening down blind alleys. Earlier it had crashed into the Great Depression from 1929 to 1933 before lurching into the...
Wall Street, media celebrate Trump’s address to Congress
By Patrick Martin
Original posted: 2 March 2017
Wall Street celebrated Donald Trump’s Tuesday speech to a joint session of Congress—in which he promised massive tax...