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Q&A with Chrystin Ondersma, author of Dignity not Debt
Apr 09 2024
American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem is that US debt policies have no basis in reality. Weaving together the histories and trends of US debt policy with her own family story, Chrystin Ondersma debu
Q&A with Gerald Epstein, author of Busting the Bankers’ Club
Jan 02 2024
Busting the Bankers' Club is an eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.Bankers brought the global economic system to its knees in 2007 and nearly did the same in 2020. Both times, the US govern
Post-pandemic Will the Poor Get Poorer?
Oct 29 2020
Anirudh KrishnaAnirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates