🚨NEWS: A tech giant has filed a lawsuit asking federal courts to grant artificial intelligence algorithms a First Amendment right for to help landlords raise rent prices. What stage of capitalism is this?

Turkey deals can’t hide the bigger problem this Thanksgiving: grocery prices for staples like veggies & ground beef are still surging. The Trump Admin cut tariffs to cool prices—while admitting they do raise costs for consumers. But tariffs aren’t the real story. Greedflation and monopoly power are.

What if the biggest threat to democracy wasn’t a politician, but an ideology so pervasive we barely notice it? @mehrsab.bsky.social joins Nick & Goldy this week to explain how neoliberalism became a “quiet coup” shaping our laws, markets, and lives. 🎧 New episode out now: buff.ly/2S2AkiD

If we raised taxes on huge fortunes and big corporations, we could generate massive funding for things working families actually need—universal pre-K, child care, better infrastructure, clean energy & more. We’re not broke. We’re just letting the richest people in America opt out. buff.ly/Z2Ysaq7

GDP treats cigarette sales & cancer treatments as “good,” but caring for your kids or creating art doesn’t count at all. @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social joins Nick & Goldy to explain why GDP no longer reflects the real economy—and how we can measure true progress instead. 🎧Listen here: buff.ly/7HrQ3Wi

A new Harvard study—the first large-scale comparison of Amazon, UPS & FedEx drivers—shows what worker power really means: 🔴 Amazon: ~$19/hr, no raises, high turnover. 🟢 UPS (union): ~$35/hr, steady wage growth, long careers. Same job. Different power. Full study → buff.ly/rpn6H5E

This week, @benmckenzie.bsky.social joins Nick & Goldy to talk about the book he co-authored with journalist Jacob Silverman, Easy Money, which exposes the trillion-dollar scam that’s rotting our financial system from the inside. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/HNdCUcE

It's Corporate America’s favorite trick: fire workers, boost the stock price. Giants like Google, Citigroup & UPS have laid off thousands of workers while spending billions buying back their own stock. Read the comic that exposes this heist: buff.ly/E8ewYjI

Corporations are on track to spend $1.3 trillion on stock buybacks this year, so we’re re-sharing our 2019 episode with @corybooker.com on how buybacks became legal market manipulation & how to stop this Trillion Dollar Heist. 🎧 Listen: buff.ly/pMmuuDT 📖 Read the comic: bindings.app/read/7mINYO2H

@theameilee.bsky.social nails it: when exploitation is profitable, even the good companies lose. That’s why it’s on governments to build markets that don’t profit from abuse. 🎧 Listen to how smarter trade policy can level the playing field—and make decency a competitive advantage. ➡️ buff.ly/WiTrMxA

Building a pro-worker economy shouldn’t be partisan. Investing in clean energy and good jobs should be a red, white, and blue issue—but for today’s GOP, nothing matters more than cutting taxes for the rich. 🎧➡️ buff.ly/WiTrMxA

When companies outsource and subcontract their supply chains, they also outsource accountability. 🎧 Hear @theameilee.bsky.social explain why enforcing labor rights across global supply chains isn’t just moral—it’s economic common sense. ➡️ buff.ly/WiTrMxA

Global trade shouldn’t come at the cost of basic human rights. 🎧 Listen now to hear how centering workers in trade policy can build a stronger and more equitable global economy. ➡️ buff.ly/WiTrMxA

The shutdown didn’t happen by accident. Republicans refused to fund ACA subsidies—so 22M Americans face higher premiums. Now SNAP is being cut off for 42M families. All to protect billionaire tax cuts. @lilyroberts.bsky.social explained in June how gutting SNAP hurts communities: buff.ly/SHgHAd6

Farm bankruptcies are climbing again for the first time since 2020. Trump’s tariffs wiped out U.S. soybean exports — now he wants to import Argentinian beef while American ranchers go broke. Classic trickle-down: reward monopolies, punish workers.

Over 71 million Americans are paid less than a living wage, and are forced into social safety nets like SNAP. If you think too many people are receiving SNAP benefits, don’t shame them. Shame their employers paying them poverty wages and forcing taxpayers to subsidize the rest.

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

Check out @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social new podcast on trade policy!

Listen to @theameilee.bsky.social and @toddntucker.com talk about trade policy & what’s really at stake. It’s not just about stuff, it’s about people.

Trade isn’t just about goods—it’s about power. @theameilee.bsky.social explains how ignoring labor rights in global trade fueled inequality and political instability, and why trade must start with workers, not corporations. 🎧 The last episode of our Trade series is live ➡️ buff.ly/WiTrMxA

Halloween candy prices have risen at nearly 4x the rate of inflation. Halloween costumes are more expensive thanks to Trump’s tariffs. KTBS News with just how expensive this Halloween season will be.

Union Pacific wants Trump's regulators to approve its $72B buyout of Norfolk Southern — a mega-deal that would stifle competition, raise costs, and hurt workers. Union Pacific is also among the corporate donors to Trump's ballroom. Gee, I wonder why?

The U.S. needs a prosperous Mexico — not just a source of cheap labor. Stability, security, and shared growth are impossible with deep inequality between neighbors. North America’s future has to be cooperative — not extractive. 🎧➡️ buff.ly/05o45ZT

The Mexican–American auto supply chain isn’t about offshoring — it’s about collaboration and modernization. 🎧➡️ buff.ly/05o45ZT

Mexico did everything the textbook said — liberalized, opened to trade, integrated with the U.S., and still ended up stuck in no man’s land, de-industrialized, and falling further behind. This is why real-world economics ≠ theory. 🎧➡️ buff.ly/05o45ZT

Trade economists promised North America would dominate China + Europe if Mexico provided labor and the United States and Canada brought capital and innovation. That was the theory. What actually happened reshaped politics across all three countries. Listen to the full episode 🎧➡️ buff.ly/05o45ZT

Argentina ran the trickle-down playbook — slash wages, gut public services, enrich the wealthy — and now the economy is imploding. Trump’s answer? Hand them $20B to prop it up before their midterms. Meanwhile, U.S. farmers still wait for help. This isn’t policy. It’s rich-guy solidarity.

After NAFTA, Mexico became a global export giant. So why didn’t living standards rise? Economist Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid joins us this week to unpack the brutal asymmetry of NAFTA, which made capital free to move, but not labor. 🎧Episode 6 of our Trade series is live ➡️ buff.ly/05o45ZT

🛤️NEW: A $72 billion rail mega-merger could reshape freight shipping across the country — and not for the better. Our new brief breaks down the stakes of the proposed Union Pacific–Norfolk Southern merger for workers, safety, and the economy👇🧵

Paid sick leave is expanding — 80% of US workers have access, up from 63% in 2012. Not because Congress acted — but because voters forced it. Alaska + Nebraska passed it in 2024. Missouri voters passed it too — then politicians killed it, stripping protections from 728,000 workers. buff.ly/dmFPd7C

American billionaires just hit a record $7.6 trillion in wealth — up $4.7 trillion (160%) since the Trump-GOP tax law in 2017, and more than half of it has never been taxed. This is what happens when you design a tax code that systematically rewards wealth over work. buff.ly/rSoY2xP

This is an emergency. In a month, health premiums are going to go up by 75%, ruining families' lives. What's happening in Chicago, where people's rights are being obliterated, is an emergency. What the FCC is doing - censoring our political speech - is an emergency.

Economist Mark Zandi warns that 22 states and D.C. are already showing signs of recession — with California and New York “treading water.” Trump’s tariffs, layoffs, and deportations are hitting farm and factory states hardest. buff.ly/QCQi2JO

What did “free trade” really do for North America? Journalist and author @lukewsavage.bsky.social says it made both countries more unequal —empowering corporations while weakening workers and democracy. 🎧 Episode 5 of our Trade series is live ➡️ buff.ly/qOfLlTR

If someone could let the White House know, by making imports more expensive with new tariffs, all you’ve done is actually made things worse for people by increasing their taxes. 🎧 ➡️ buff.ly/vinrKSa

White-collar workers are done with burnout, layoffs, and corporate spin. They’re organizing for fair pay and real power on the job. Union strength isn’t just for one class of worker—it’s for all workers. 💪 https://seiu.co/47qitOb

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

This was good and the parts about China were revealing and a lot of the left that knee jerk approval of that state should listen. If you’re pro worker.

Globalization wasn’t workers competing—it was elites extracting. When profits got funneled to wealthy shareholders instead of into workers' paychecks, everyone lost. 🎧 👉 buff.ly/vinrKSa

The same people who just gave billionaires tax breaks have shut down the government rather than keeping our healthcare premiums from spiking. Tells you everything you need to know.

The extractive nature of bailouts, explained in a single post ⬇️

Every time you spend a dollar, it ripples through the global economy. Everything we do—work, save, buy—links us together. That’s not abstract—That’s the reality of a truly global economy. 🎧 👉 buff.ly/vinrKSa

Trade wars aren’t really about countries—they’re about classes. Economist Matthew C. Klein joins Nick & Goldy to expose how elites suppress wages, hoard profits, and rig the global economy against workers everywhere. 🎧 Episode 4 of our Trade series ➡️ buff.ly/vinrKSa

Trade debates still obsess over steel and tariffs, while the U.S. quietly runs a $700 billion digital trade surplus. That’s the size of all of France’s exports, but traditional trade stats don’t show it. 🎧 ➡️ buff.ly/91gHB84

Prosperity follows complexity. Societies that build sophisticated things thrive. Those that don’t—stagnate. 🎧 ➡️ buff.ly/91gHB84

Languages like Spanish and French distinguish between knowledge and know-how. Maybe our economic debates should, too.

These are the dividends of the information age. Higher productivity but the gains not shared equitably with workers. This is what happened during the Industrial Revolution as well. Imagine how many multiples worse this will be made by AI.

What drives economic growth? Not elites hoarding wisdom or wealth, but the messy, beautiful web of knowledge shared across workers, cities, and communities. 🎧 ➡️ buff.ly/91gHB84

🚨 New data: CEOs at the 350 biggest firms took home $23 million on average in 2024—that’s 281x what the typical worker makes. Since 1978: 📈 CEO pay up 1,094% 📉 Worker pay up 26% This is what a rigged economy looks like. Read the full report: buff.ly/6Z9VnYy

🚨 New data: CEOs at the 350 biggest firms took home $23 million on average in 2024—that’s 281x what the typical worker makes! 80% of it is stock—taxed at lower rates than workers’ wages. That’s how the richest get richer while paying less in taxes than their secretaries. buff.ly/6Z9VnYy