Publications

Trump’s tariffs and budget cuts have triggered a sharp drop in confidence and real consumer spending, signaling real economic trouble.

The first quarterly GDP report under Trump shows early economic impacts from anticipated tariffs, slowing productivity growth, waning factory construction, and heightened uncertainty about future growth, signaling a shift away from the pandemic recovery pattern and raising recession risks.

Driven by its own false narrative about dangerous migrants, the Trump administration is deporting even innocent people — including a US citizen toddler — in a desperate, lawless attempt to maintain the illusion that it is cracking down on criminal immigrants.

Trump is not going to produce a manufacturing job boom. Instead, he will establish a Russian-type risk premium associated with investing in the United States.

The Center for Economic and Policy Research, ActionAid USA, MENAFem, Bretton Woods Project, and Latindadd hosted a panel discussion at the IMF-World Bank 2025 Spring Meeting Civil Society Policy Forum.

Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative promised $2 trillion in government savings but has delivered minimal documented savings—many of them exaggerated or false—while likely causing greater long-term costs through service disruptions, lawsuits, and regulatory rollbacks that benefit the wealthy.

Trump’s erratic tariffs were supposed to bring back manufacturing jobs and end our trade deficits. They aren’t likely to do either.

It is important to understand that trade policy, patent and copyright monopolies are not the ‘free market’ — they are government policies that have benefited the rich.

Donald Trump’s war on data is incompatible with a functioning democracy.

Advertisements claiming to ‘protect Medicare Advantage’ are just spreading dubious information about an obviously wasteful scam.