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"Overcoming Trump’s U.S. Health Care Wrecking Ball"
Robert Pollin, pens the first of a two-part series that covers President Donald Trump’s "devastating cuts to the already dysfunctional U.S. health care system and the need for Medicare for All." 
https://www.dollarsandsense.org/overcoming-trumps-u-s-health-care-wrecking-ball/

"America’s Cost-of-Living Crisis Is Really a Pay Crisis"
In a piece for TIME, Arin Dube, economics, writes, "The issue underpinning America’s cost-of-living crisis isn’t just rising prices. The real culprit behind America’s affordability crisis is that employers have had too much power and too little motivation to share gains." https://time.com/article/2026/04/10/america-cost-of-living-pay-crisis/

Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk, have written a new piece for Project Syndicate. "As the world is plunged into another energy crisis, market allocation is leading to grossly unjust outcomes, as the rich outbid the poor. A multilateral oil buyers' club is urgently needed to defend a price ceiling in global oil markets and allocate resources in a way that meets people’s essential needs and minimizes the economic fallout."
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/oil-buyers-club-can-limit-inflation-and-avert-recession-amid-iran-war-energy-crisis-by-isabella-m-weber-and-gregor-semieniuk

Guillermo Matamoros Romero, has been named a Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Teaching for Inclusiveness, Diversity, and Equity (TIDE) Ambassador. The selective fellowship empowers outstanding faculty to transform student learning across cultural, social, and learning differences through strength-based, inclusive teaching approaches.

 

The US and Israel’s illegal attack on Iran will provoke a global economic catastrophe 
By Isabella Weber and Gregor Semieniuk
 

How did the labor market stop working for so many in the workforce? Why did wages at the bottom and in the middle of the pay scale fail to keep up with a growing economy that delivered over 70 percent productivity gains and soaring incomes for those at the top? What caused this divergence, and what can we do about it now? 

Richard Wolff, economics emeritus, writes, "We are at a social inflection point where change shifts from slow to fast, from quantitative to qualitative. Trying to hold all this back drives current moves toward political authoritarianism in many Western capitalist societies." 
 

Isabella Weber  and Gregor Semieniuk coauthored an op-ed summarizing their research on who gained from the 2022 energy crisis--with lessons for 2026--and arguing for a windfall tax and price caps
 

Gerald Epstein, writes about Trump's impact on the crypto industry and the influence of crypto lobbying; "The speed, scope, and scale of crypto’s rise from the ashes reflects the success of a political project much more than a purely economic one."