An antitrust advocate reflects on the Democratic Party's cult of powerlessness
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UK calls bluff of ultra-rich foreigners threatening to leave
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Donald Trump and the Joe Biden White House both say the United States should have a sovereign wealth fund – Norway, home to the world's largest, may offer a few lessons
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Beyond the politics of nostalgia: What the fall of the steel industry can tell us about the future of America
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How a start-up utopia became a nightmare for Honduras: US investors are suing Honduras over special economic zones, and the dispute could bankrupt the country
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Kamala Harris plans to tax unrealized US stock gains — but only for people worth $100 million
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Could Britain's soaring taxes push energy companies to Norway? Taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78%, prompting several to think about pulling out.
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Monopoly round-up: Price gouging vs price fixing vs price controls
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Why scrapping VAT on sunscreen and public EV charging would be an expensive waste of money
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‘Morally, nobody’s against it’: Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate crisis
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Scott Galloway - "The Algebra of Wealth"
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US appeals court blocks all of Joe Biden's SAVE student debt relief plan
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Does market failure justify government intervention? (with Michael Munger)
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Canada cannot afford another lost economic decade
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The government of Cuba declares itself in a ‘war-time economy’
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International scheme to tax billionaires’ wealth technically feasible, study [by Gabriel Zucman] finds
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Proposed ballot measure to raise corporate taxes, give every Oregonian $750 a year likely to make November ballot
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Giorgia Meloni accused of splitting Italy over law to let richer regions keep taxes. Critics say differentiated autonomy bill, sought by wealthier areas, will increase poverty in south.
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The macroeconomic cost of the UK's Conservative government
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Donald Trump trade advisers plot US dollar devaluation
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Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has become a European hotspot for the super rich
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Spending cuts are often false economies that end up costing society dearly
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Venezuela to accelerate cryptocurrency shift as oil sanctions return
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Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective
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Norway unveiled plans to remove a loophole used by the Nordic nation's richest – government attempts to drag more tax revenue out of the fleeing billionaires
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Trumpist US policy document Project 2025 cowritten by anti social security economist Stephen Moore
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Donald Trump built a national debt so big (even before the pandemic) that it’ll weigh down the US economy for years [published 2021]
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Abolishing inheritance tax sent Stockholm's startup ecosystem soaring – tax cut could revive Britain's flagging economy
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Greedflation accounts for fifty-three cents of every US dollar of inflation in past six months
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Global minimum tax on multinationals goes live to raise up to $220bn
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Christopher Luxon sworn in as New Zealand prime minister, says priority is to improve economy
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Canadian federal government considering new caps on payday lending and high risk lending
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Europe's single currency, used daily by about 350 million people, has become a hot topic in an unlikely place – Sweden
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Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
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Africa is dogged by debt
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Rising long-term interest rates are posing the latest threat to a US economic ‘soft landing’
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US national debt tops $33 trillion for first time
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Norway wealth tax pushes the rich to move to Switzerland – millionaire prime minister has embarked on a push to tax the wealthiest for social justice
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A huge threat to the US budget has receded. No one is sure why (A decade of Medicare spending growth and projections)
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Poland cuts tax for first-time homebuyers and raises it for those buying multiple properties
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US Education Department readies latest tranche of student debt relief but faces new legal challenges to the program
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We need to raise a lot more in tax from the wealthy but that does not convince me that we need a wealth tax
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Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year. Now every public-school student is going to get free lunch.
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What a green monetary policy could look like
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Portugal’s bid to attract foreign money backfires as rental market goes ‘crazy’
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Turkey is heading for a classic currency crisis. All of its reserves and then some are borrowed.
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US Supreme Court strikes down President Biden's student loan forgiveness: Now what?
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US President Joe Biden can probably forgive student debt even if Supreme Court of the United States rules against him
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US Federal Reserve holds off on rate hike, but says two more are coming later this year
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Labour’s surprisingly bold UK economic agenda
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