Your Bank Traps You. Here’s The Fix.
Financial institutions are doing everything they can to prevent consumers from shopping around for better banking options.
Economic Policy
Bidenomics Failed Its Inflation Test
Economist Hal Singer on Team Biden’s refusal to aggressively tackle rising prices — and why we’re all worse off because of it.
The Great Bank Robbery of 2023 (UPDATE)
The nation’s biggest banks are netting big profits from rising interest rates while ripping off everyone else.
The Happiness Guru Who Immiserated America
A right-wing operative cashes in on convincing liberals that he’s the cure for the despair he sowed.
The Missing Inflation Data
The Biden administration is getting bad data and bad advice — but there’s a way out.
Bidenomics Isn’t Working For Working People
Biden promised to build back better, but even as the economy recovers, workers are being left behind.
LEVER TIME: The Fix Was In With Biden’s Debt Ceiling Deal
On this week’s Lever Time, Sirota and David Dayen of The American Prospect unravel the “meager thinking” behind the debt ceiling deal.
Biden Just Gave Up His Power To Help Student Debtors
Through weak policy efforts and debt ceiling capitulations, Biden has helped derail his student loan relief plan — and time is running out to salvage it.
Debt Deal Gives Fossil Fuel Lobby A Legal Shield
Industry donations flowed to key Dem senators just before a major pipeline approval was slipped into the debt ceiling bill.
Dark Money’s Behind The Debt Ceiling Plan To Punish The Poor
Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy borrowed his punishing work requirement proposal from the conservative think tank pushing to loosen child labor laws.