Get the Think newsletter.SUBSCRIBEMarch 24, 2019, 3:57 PM GMTBy Ani BundelEven the best creators can have a hard time knowing when to stop. The sequel trap has tripped up many a beloved series, written and…
An epic example of wealth destruction, by Scott…
The San Francisco Bay area is one of the most productive regions in the world, particularly the Silicon Valley area near San Jose. Unfortunately, many workers are priced out of moving there due to extremely…
Michael Hudson Discusses the IMF and World Bank:…
Yves here. Get a cup of coffee. This interview with Michael Hudson on the role of the IMF and World Bank has lots of juicy detail. From Guns and Butter, produced by Bonnie Faulkner, Yarrow…
Charter Schools Unleashed “Educational Hunger Games” in California.…
By Andrea Gabor, Bloomberg Professor, Baruch College. Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website California has the highest concentration of charter schools in the U.S., with one in 10 students in the…
Where Blue-Collar America Is Strongest
President Trump seems ready to declare victory in his effort to make America great again; last month, he said the slogan for his 2020 re-election campaign will be “Keep America Great.” But how much has…
What If Tariffs Cost Trump The Farm Vote?
In 1977, Jimmy Carter made an improbable journey from Georgia peanut grower to Democratic president in part by playing on his humble roots and receiving support from America’s farmers. Yet this bedrock voting constituency abandoned…
What’s good for Wall Street is often bad…
A strong dollar is hurting American workers and main street manufacturers, as I explained last week in the New York Times. I discussed what can be done about it, which builds on a crucial plank…
Plastic Watch: G20 Issues Pathetic Declaration
By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. The G20 on June 29 took action on plastic waste by committing…
How Media Workers are Organizing in the Dual…
Yves here. I want to quibble a bit about the idea that reporters, now apparently “media workers,” were middle and upper middle class. That is a recent development. It was not all that long ago…