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Dollars & Sense

Provides a left perspective on current economic issues in the United States and the world. Features articles written by journalists, activists, and scholars on a broad range of topics with an economic theme, such as the economy, housing, labor, government regulation, unemployment, the environment, urban conflict, and activism. Single-theme issues each year focus on the auto, travel and convention, food, beverage, tobacco, financial, and communication industries..

Total result: 805 articles

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Pushing on strings: the explosion of U.S. banks' excess reserves since...
May 01, 2009

You (don't) get what you pay for.(The Short Run)
March 01, 2009

Private equity blues.(The Short Run)
January 01, 2009

Derivatives and deregulation: three left economists take the discussio...
November 01, 2008

Capitalism hits the fan.(United States'economic history)
November 01, 2008

Climate economics in four easy pieces: conventional cost-benefit model...
November 01, 2008

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
November 01, 2008

Ask Dr. Dollar.
September 01, 2008

Citizenship, political rights, and labor rights.
September 01, 2008

The right to stay home: transnational communities are creating new way...
September 01, 2008

Indiana and Honda mold a white workforce: Honda's new Indiana plant ne...
September 01, 2008

One-quarter of large U.S. corporations don't pay profit taxes--why sho...
September 01, 2008

Immigrant rights are labor rights: Postville and the lessons of the Ho...
September 01, 2008

The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.(making sense)
September 01, 2008

Passing on single-payer health care: union leadership is out of touch ...
September 01, 2008

The greed fallacy: you can't explain a change with a constant.(comment...
September 01, 2008

ICE descends on Rhode Island: activists and advocates cope with a "cli...
September 01, 2008

Free market man in "health care adventure".(leftycartoons.com)(Cartoon...
September 01, 2008

Confidence game.(from the editors)
September 01, 2008

Letters.(the short run)(Letter to the editor)
July 01, 2008

What free markets?(from the editors)
July 01, 2008

What housing crisis?(the short run)(construction of mansions)(Brief ar...
July 01, 2008

The honeymooners.(the short run)(First Advantage and Rocketplane's wed...
July 01, 2008

Stimulating Wal-Mart.(the short run)(effects of tax rebates on sales)(...
July 01, 2008

Herald scoops Globe.(the short run)(Boston Globe's salaries)(Brief art...
July 01, 2008

Bling burgers.(the short run)(Burger King's burger record)(Brief artic...
July 01, 2008

"Free trade" blowback.(the short run)(United States and Colombian trad...
July 01, 2008

Ceo nightmare.(Cartoon)
July 01, 2008

Freightliner five: after a rare union victory in the South, five union...
July 01, 2008

How to stop the foreclosures? A review of the policy proposals.(making...
July 01, 2008

How to make mud cookies: a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs...
July 01, 2008

Private equity exposed: an insider gives a peek at a notoriously secre...
July 01, 2008

The global oil market: how it operates, why it doesn't work, and who w...
July 01, 2008

"They work here, they live here, they stay here!" French immigrants st...
July 01, 2008

Ask Dr. Dollar.(on hedge funds)
July 01, 2008

From the editors.
May 01, 2008

Minimal wage increase.(the short run)(Brief article)
May 01, 2008

Beggar thy neighbor.(the short run)(condominium fees )(Brief article)
May 01, 2008

By snobs, for snobs.(the short run)(Brief article)
May 01, 2008

Theory about the minimum wage.(Cartoon)
May 01, 2008

Poverty tourism.(travelers' enlightenment of country's condition)(Brie...
May 01, 2008

Evicted by the Olympics.(the short run)(Brief article)
May 01, 2008

A $4.2 billion mastercard payment?(the short run)(Brief article)
May 01, 2008

Can the Fed handle a systemic crisis? maybe.(Federal Reserve)
May 01, 2008

Dust-up at the Labor Notes conference: SEIU and CNA at loggerheads.(Se...
May 01, 2008

America beyond consumerism: has capitalist economic growth outlived it...
May 01, 2008

It's a new globalized world, Mr. Jones.(Economic and Political Conflic...
May 01, 2008

Dear Dr. Dollar: who cares if Bear Stearns fails? or the Carlyle Group...
May 01, 2008

Remittances to the rescue?(aid in managing financial crises)
May 01, 2008

Paying more, getting less: how much is the sick U.S. health care syste...
May 01, 2008

The world is not flat: how Thomas Friedman gets it wrong about globali...
May 01, 2008

Status for sale.(the short run)(car plates on auction)(Brief article)
March 01, 2008

Testing economics: does the national economics assessment test high Sc...
March 01, 2008

Ask Dr. Dollar.
March 01, 2008

From the editors.(Editorial)
March 01, 2008

Divorce, Japanese-Style.(the short run)(Brief article)
March 01, 2008

Junket postponed.(the short run)(Countrywide was forced to cancel its ...
March 01, 2008

Damned if you do, ...(the short run)(Brief article)
March 01, 2008

Ooh, that hurts.(the short run)(Aetna Inc. has postponed its plan to d...
March 01, 2008

Cutting back the essentials.(the short run)(consumers cut costs)(Brief...
March 01, 2008

West Bengal's right turn.
March 01, 2008

The short run.(Cartoon)
March 01, 2008

Eviction halted--for now: anti-foreclosure activism turns up the heat ...
March 01, 2008

It's still the economy, stupid: but which advisers have the candidates...
March 01, 2008

Go ahead and lift the cap: assessing a campaign flyer on Social Securi...
March 01, 2008

A new WPA?(comparing Work Progress Administration to Argentine economi...
March 01, 2008

Housing (accountability) gap in Mississippi: federal Katrina reconstru...
January 01, 2008

Stormier weather: the economic recovery that's been officially underwa...
January 01, 2008

From NAFTA to the SPP: here comes the Security and Prosperity Partners...
January 01, 2008

Ask Dr. Dollar.(poverty)(Column)
January 01, 2008

From the editors.(financial crises)(Editorial)
January 01, 2008

A dream foreclosed.(home foreclosures)(Brief article)
January 01, 2008

Whose Internet?(access control of workplace internet)(Brief article)
January 01, 2008

Detained and electrocuted.(immigrant's death)(Brief article)
January 01, 2008

It takes a system.(Wall Street)(Brief article)
January 01, 2008

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