The firehose of affluent consumption continues to drive inflation, not the stimulus package
It must be the Wall Street Journal’s DNA. Nothing else easily explains why the normally careful Nick Timiraos would focus so much of his account of “How the Democrats Blew It on Inflation” on the hoary argument that the “Biden Stimulus” somehow triggered worldwide inflation back in 2021.
Earlier investments make large-scale emission reductions easier to do over time because their unit costs drop
Everyone recognizes that the costs of automobiles, washers, jet planes, and hundreds of other products usually drop with mass production. Most products get cheaper when they stream out of workplaces not by the dozens, but by the tens of thousands, or even millions.
Lincoln Mitchell, Political Science Professor at Columbia University, discusses the increasingly powerful fascist movement in the US., outlining the elements of fascism present in the MAGA movement, including its dependence on a strongman leader, the scapegoating of minorities, threats of violence and curtailing of freedoms of speech and assembly.
David Sirota joins Rob Johnson to examine the history and impact of money in U.S. politics, as explored in Sirota’s investigative podcast series, "Master Plan." Sirota discusses how a series of judicial rulings and policy changes since the 1970s enabled a system in which the voices of wealthy elites overshadow those of ordinary citizens.
Ever since 2016, INET researchers confirmed the significance of economic issues in Trump’s ascendency.
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Many voters, feeling disillusioned, are searching in vain for narratives that resonate with their experiences.
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The key role coal industrialists played in supporting and financing the eventual
Nazi triumph
The history of the political relations between Hitler and the NSDAP leadership and the German "coal industrialists" from 1926 to 1933
