WASHINGTON >>President Joe Biden assured Americans today that the U.S. economy is chugging along in the holiday season, but the very strength of a new jobs report showed that high inflation remains a recession threat. At the White House, the president signed an emergency bill to avert a rail strike […]
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Hiltzik: The enduring failure of economic neoliberalism
Here’s the central riddle of U.S. politics since the Great Depression: Social Democratic policies crafted in the 1930s succeeded in creating a long era of widespread prosperity, then suddenly lost their credibility in the mid-1970s. They were replaced by the neoliberalism of Ronald Reagan, which failed to help anyone but […]