ADAM TOOZE

Trump’s mercantilism may be a personal belief rooted in the 1980s, but for the Republicans it marks a historic break.

How the Fed, hedge funds, banks, journalists and economists struggle to dominate the interpretation of the monetary system.

Revealing data from market-driven research company highlights the polarization of the US wealth distribution.

New data pinpoint the hard core of anti-government politics in US amongst white evangelicals who are high-income and Tea Party identified.

What if Trump’s economic policy morphs into an unregulated, all-around expansionism, back to the go go years, Goldman on populist speed?

Four ways in which the dollar’s global role could generate tension with the crude economic nationalism of the Trump administration.

More comparisons with Europe reveal the stark polarization of US income distribution, but also raise questions about the reformist politics that animate these data-collection efforts.

Since the 1970s in-country inequality has grown across much of world. But whereas in China and France all incomes have risen, in the US half the population has seen its pre-tax incomes DECLINE over four decades.

How building the wall will rely on the entangled economy of the Mexican-American border region.

“Dark matter” is a big deal in the American financial balance with the rest of the world. In visible trade the situation is the dramatic

How POTUS came to view the world through a mindset shaped by the 1950s and the 1980s.

How many low-income students to America’s Colleges recruit? How many of them make it into the top 20 % or top 1 % of the income distribution? Which colleges reproduce inequality? Which colleges are vehicles of social mobility? ESSENTIAL reading.