This Destination-Based Cash Flow Tax debate has generated a lot of discussion – some of it helpful and some of it quite confused. Tim Fernho...

 Today: O'Reilly : But he's a killer though. Putin's a killer." Trump: There are a lot of killers. We've got a lot...

Alex Gourevitch has written a thoughtful and well-informed essay about the general strike, Whose Strike?  The essay begins with an essentia...

It may be way too soon to say anything sensible about what Trump thinks about the Fed or will do  about it, but as the first person to have ...

The expression "sawdust Caesar" occurs in this clip from a 1945 newsreel on the execution of Benito Mussolini: I hadn't hea...

Bloomberg reports: A proposed tax on imports that President Donald Trump is said to be warming to could upend the competitive landscape fo...

This week I gave my traditional pair of lectures on Marxist economics to the program Political Economy and Social Movements for which I'...

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in which we live is the rule. -- Walter Benjamin,  On the Concept ...

The White House is boosting about this : Amgen CEO Robert Bradway told President Trump at today's White House meeting that his company ...

Recall of elected officials is both the essence of Populism, the "imperative mandate" and consistent with good business principle...

EconoSpeak has been receiving comments from an anonymous troll who is gaslighting. I will delete those comments on sight. Gaslighting is not...

Yes, she has been a crook and a liar, and if she were in the White House she and her money grubbing husband might be plotting which pieces o...

On October 7, 2016 the Washington Post published a 2005 recording of Donald J.Trump engaging in lewd conversation with Access Hollywood hos...

Why, oh why is there not an effective opposition party in the U.S. Congress?  The last time " voter fraud " was as high on th...

The motive for Trump’s unending stream of blatant falsehoods is obscure.  It might be mental illness , or maybe it’s a Schelling-style hosta...