Gentrification gets bad press. It would appear that the gentrifier (he who engages in gentrification) is a malign exploiter, a bully, someone who takes advantage of the weak and the poor. And these are the nice things said about him.
In order to confuse matters, much of the true debt incurred by the federal government each year is simply declared to not be part of the deficit.
While it is true that factory jobs have fallen by approximately seven million since 1979, manufacturing output has climbed more than one-fifth since 2006.
Trump’s trade war is not about about being patriotic or protecting American businesses. It is about politics and bad economics.
The poor are certainly poor compared to the rich. But they have more than the middle class of just one generation ago.
The two most powerful motivations in human history have always been ideology and economic interest.
Social Security was a revolution that shifted the responsibility for income maintenance from the private to the public sector.
