Latest articles by Jeff Spross
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Let's have open borders for people and closed borders for capital
opinion The question isn't whether borders should be enforced, it's what they should be enforced against
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Is China a currency manipulator or not?
The Explainer How to understand their recent actions — and Trump's response
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China just showed why Trump can't win with tariffs
The Explainer An escalating tariff war is a losing strategy, but there's another way
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Should liberals get behind rent control?
opinion What economists have to say about the suddenly revived debate
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Why is everyone obsessed with the Fed?
The Explainer Making sense of the freak out over the rate cut everyone knew was coming
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Elizabeth Warren is building the future of progressive trade policy
opinion It's the clear alternative the left has been waiting for
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Did Trump give us our most progressive Fed chair yet?
The Explainer Making sense of the Fed's surprising move
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Is an aging population actually bad for the economy?
The Explainer It's more complicated than most people seem to think
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The hole in Josh Hawley's economic argument
opinion Who does his attack on the "cosmopolitan consensus" ultimately serve?
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Is there an economic case for a $20 minimum wage?
opinion What we know, and don't know, about the effects of an aggressive wage hike
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How big a problem is the falloff in Chinese investment?
The Explainer Why Chinese money is getting pulled out of the American economy, and what to do about it
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The value of education is not what you think
opinion Why is a college degree really so important to American employers?
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The overwhelming correlation between austerity and Brexit
opinion This is how massive cuts to government spending poisoned Britain
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The endless cyclical stupidity of the debt ceiling
opinion Crisis or playacting? It's hard to tell at this point.
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China's growth problem is an inequality problem
The Explainer Why the solution to lagging growth is more spending power for everyday Chinese people
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The Fed's monetary policy prison
The Explainer How Congress has left the central bank between a rock and a hard place
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Your grandpa wouldn't have been impressed by Amazon's plan to retrain workers. Neither should you.
opinion Amazon workers are going back to school — and the midcentury model of labor
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Why a pro-worker president would welcome France's tech tax
opinion There's nothing populist about helping corporations shelter profits
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Are people who make $200k middle-class?
opinion The truth about American inequality
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The school segregation issue Democrats should be talking about
opinion The fight over busing obscures the root causes
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Trump's remarkably reasonable pick for the Federal Reserve
The Explainer Christopher Waller is no party hack
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No one really wants to ban all private insurance. Not even Bernie Sanders.
opinion In an effort to prove how uncompromising they are, Democrats have fallen for an idiotic gotcha question
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How America avoided an economic bust for a record-setting 121 months
The Explainer Let's take a minute to praise the policymakers
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Banks are passing their stress tests with flying colors. Uh oh.
The Explainer Have Trump appointees put their fingers on the scale?
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