Sanders ha incaricato tre economisti di redigere un piano roosveltiano per garantire lavoro e sanità agli esclusi. Chiunque tra i Dem vorrà candidarsi per il 2020 dovrà tenerne conto.
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La sinistra italiana ricominci da Emma González
Dopo il KO del 4 marzo. Ci si può rialzare, anche meditando su quel che accade Oltreoceano? www.ytali.com
L’economia digitale e la concorrenza Cina-Usa
Guardando oltre i dazi imposti da Trump a Pechino, sono molti gli intrecci di interessi tra i due Paesi, anche nei settori dell’economia digitale. Soprattutto finanziario.
Déjà Voodoo
A Trump administration staffed by plutocrats – most of whom gained their wealth from rent-seeking activities, rather than from productive entrepreneurship – could be expected to reward themselves. But the Republicans’ proposed tax reform is a bigger gift to corporations and the ultra-rich than most had anticipated www.project-syndicate.org
Everyone loves Bernie Sanders. Except the Democratic party
If you look at the numbers, Bernie Sanders is the most popular politician in America – and it’s not even close. Yet bizarrely, the Democratic party – out of power across the country and increasingly irrelevant – still refuses to embrace him and his message www.theguardian.com
Profitable Companies, No Taxes: Here’s How They Did It
Although the top corporate rate is 35 percent, hardly any company actually pays that. The report, by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a left-leaning research group in Washington, found that 100 of them — nearly 40 percent — paid no taxes in at least one year between 2008 and 2015 www.nytimes.com
Trump’s Crony Cabinet May Look Strong, but They Are Scared
A zoom into what is happening in Washington right now. The key figures populating Donald Trump’s cabinet are not only ultra-rich—they are individuals who made their money knowingly causing harm to the most vulnerable people on this planet, and to the planet itself. It appears to be some sort of job requirement www.thenation.com
2016 in Charts. (And Can Trump Deliver in 2017?)
By any measure, 2016 was a momentous year, capped by the shocking victory of Donald J. Trump. As his choices for his cabinet were unveiled, a sea change in the path of government policy appeared inevitable. What is less clear is whether Mr. Trump’s proposals will help those who put him in office; the postelection […]
Trump, un “non voto” di protesta
Contrariamente all’opinione dominante diversi analisti hanno invece interpretato la vittoria di Trump come espressione di un voto di protesta contro le élite, l’establishment e la “vecchia politica”
Se la sinistra sottovaluta Trump
Potrebbe definirsi revisionismo l’insieme di reazioni e giudizi indulgenti che l’elezione di Donald Trump ha suscitato tra politici non di destra e perfino tra intellettuali di sinistra