Robert Reich on Economics under Trump

Robert Reich on the future under Trump.

http://capitalandmain.com/conversations-on-trumps-america-robert-reich-previews-a-new-era-of-savage-inequality-1129

Already a big gap between Trump’s promises to the middle class and his policies | Economic Policy Institute

Already a big gap between Trump’s promises to the middle class and his policies | Economic Policy Institute

Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Brilliant Speech on President-elect Trump

Neoliberalism and Trump

It was the Democrats' Embrace of Neoliberalism That Won It for Trump   By Naomi Klein    November 9, 2016 The Guardian (UK)         Davos - where the global elite gather every winter to discuss and decide on economic policy effecting the rest of us. `Elite neoliberalism unleashed the Davos class. People such as Hillary and Bill Clinton are the toast of the Davos party. In truth, they threw the party.'  Photograph: Ruben Sprich/Reuters // The Guardian     They will blame James Comey and the FBI. They will blame voter suppression and racism. They will blame Bernie or bust and misogyny. They will blame third parties and independent candidates. They will blame the corporate media for giving him the platform, social media for being a bullhorn, and WikiLeaks for airing the laundry.   But this leaves out the force most responsible for creating the nightmare in which we now find ourselves wide awake: neoliberalism. That worldview - fully embodied by Hillary Clinton and her machine - is no match for Trump-style extremism. The decision to run one against the other is what sealed our fate. If we learn nothing else, can we please learn from that mistake?

Democracy , Trade, Globalization, and Trump

Democracy, Trade, Globalization and Trump

 Rethink Globalization, Or Trumpism Prevails

 

By Thomas Piketty

 

November 16, 2016

The Guardian (US) [1]

 

 

Let it be said at once: Trump's victory is primarily due to the explosion in economic and geographic inequality in the United States over several decades and the inability of successive governments to deal with this.

 

Both the Clinton and the Obama administrations frequently went along with the market liberalization launched under Reagan and both Bush presidencies. At times they even outdid them: the financial and commercial deregulation carried out under Clinton is an example. What sealed the deal, though, was the suspicion that the Democrats were too close to Wall Street - and the inability of the Democratic media elite to learn the lessons from the Sanders vote.

 

Hillary won the popular vote by a whisker (60.1 million votes as against 59.8 million for Trump, out of a total adult population of 240 million), but the participation of the youngest and the lowest income groups was much too low to enable key states to be won.

 

The tragedy is that Trump's program will only strengthen the trend towards inequality. He intends to abolish the health insurance laboriously granted to low-paid workers under Obama and to set the country on a headlong course into fiscal dumping, with a reduction from 35% to 15% in the rate of federal tax on corporation profits, whereas to date the United States had resisted this trend, already witnessed in Europe.

The Trump Financial Panic

The Trump Financial Panic: On the economic consequences of the Donald.

Prop. 51 Versus a State-Owned Bank: How California Can Save $10 Billion on a $9 Billion Loan | Portside

Prop. 51 Versus a State-Owned Bank: How California Can Save $10 Billion on a $9 Billion Loan | Portside