Rethinking the Need for a National Industrial Policy
The country is beginning to reopen and the cold reality is that the economy will not be what it was before, nor should it be. Perhaps...
The country is beginning to reopen and the cold reality is that the economy will not be what it was before, nor should it be. Perhaps...
Over the last few decades we have seen a tendency in many cases not to enforce anti-trust laws, which were designed to break up...
As the country begins a process of reopening, and increasingly more people, especially those deemed non-essential workers, are protesting...
Inequality and rising income has long been an issue in any number of political campaigns. The economic fallout from the COVID-19...
With the advent of public administration during the early part of the Twentieth Century came what is regarded as the administrative...
Any law passed by Congress, even with the noblest intentions is fraught with politics. Every member of Congress attempts to fold his or...
As of this writing Congress cannot agree on a stimulus package to mitigate the economic harm caused by COVID-19. And yet, the economic...
Necessity as the mother of invention has long been a driving force for progress. In our political system, the main driver of change has...
As Bernie Sanders appears to be heading towards front-runner status, any number of people are expressing their shock and dismay over...
As the battle for the Democratic party nomination for President intensifies, much attention is paid to public opinion polls. In fact, it...
The policy of the day appears to be Medicare for All, which is really nothing different than a single-payer system. We need a...
We hear a lot on the campaign trail these days about programs and new investment. We also hear lip service to the meaning of democracy....
Those pushing for Trump’s impeachment argue that it is essential to preserve the integrity of American democracy. By placing his own...
For those on the right, inequality is a nonissue because gaps between the top and the bottom only serve to incentivize those at the...
By certain objective measures the economy is doing well. Unemployment is low at 3.7 percent, or so that is the official unemployment...
Despite a recent positive jobs report, a low unemployment rate, a slight growth in wages, there are still problems plaguing the U.S....
In the presidential debates for the Democratic party nomination so far, instead of a debate, we have seen each candidate attempting to...
Last week the United Auto Workers (UAW) went out on strike against General Motors (GM), ostensibly over pay and benefits. Perhaps the...
In the early 1970s the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan published a book entitled Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding. He wrote about...
As the march off technology continues on, we are left to ponder a larger and perhaps deeper question: just what will the future of work...