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12 million Americans at financial crossroads as economy faces growing risks

A quiet financial crisis is building beneath the surface of the U.S. economy — and it’s centered on student debt. New ...
The Economist

Pessimism is the world’s main economic problem

Pessimism has become both widespread and persistent. In America consumer sentiment is near its lowest on record. Across ...
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King’s Poor People’s Campaign foretold America’s affordability crisis

After riots in many urban areas in the summer of 1967, MLK planned the Poor People’s Campaign, a multi-racial effort to use ...
Agri-Pulse

Majority of corn farmers see economic crisis brewing

New polling shows that the majority of U.S. corn producers see an economic crisis on the horizon – or at least the possibility of one. In a survey published Wednesday commissioned by the National Corn ...

How a 1990s Financial Crisis Stunted a Generation of Children

Summary: Economic shocks can influence human biology in ways that only become visible years later. A new long-term analysis links sudden changes in food affordability during early childhood to altered ...

Seeds of the Next Financial Crisis

Seventeen years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, financial markets once again appear buoyant, confident, and richly ...
CNN

Trump’s first problem on the economy and health care: admitting he’s got a problem

President Donald Trump has a fresh chance this week to act on a priority voters continually say they want fixed — but over which he’s in denial. The high and rising prices of health care, groceries ...
Washington Monthly

An Economic Crisis Is Inevitable

You were on the show a few months back, actually at the start of the Trump administration. And in fact, you were one of our very first guests, so thank you very much for returning! I want to ask you ...
CNN

Trump took the US economy to the brink of a crisis in just 100 days

Donald Trump spent his first 100 days back in the Oval Office driving an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear ...
Human Rights Watch

How Low Taxes Drove Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis and Squandered its Education Lead

Susikala was working as a daily wage earner at a flower garden in Hatton, a hilly area in central Sri Lanka, when in April 2022 the government defaulted on its debt. The default sent the economy into ...
MarketWatch

Meredith Whitney famously called the 2008 financial crisis. Here’s the new problem with the U.S. economy, she says

Nearly two decades ago, financial analyst Meredith Whitney was labeled the “Oracle of Wall Street” for her bearish views on banks ahead of the global financial crisis. Featured in “The Big Short” book ...
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Opinion: Dr. King’s Poor People’s Campaign foretold America’s affordability crisis

As affordability becomes a pressing concern in America, this article explores the economic challenges facing hard-working people and the relevance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Poor People's ...