The robots are coming, and Sweden is fine with that
In much of the world, people are increasingly anxious about a potential wave of unemployment threatened by automation. But there’s little fear in Sweden —...
It started as a tax cut; now it could change American life
In the Republican tax plan, corporate taxes, along with those on the rich, would be cut on the presumption that when people in penthouses get...
When the economy doesn’t provide living-wage jobs, is free money the answer?
As wages stagnate and automation erodes jobs, some economists and politicians say that if work can’t reliably finance basic needs, the answer is a basic...
End of Apartheid in South Africa? Not in economic terms
“We never dismantled apartheid,” said Ayabonga Cawe, a former economist for Oxfam, the international anti-poverty organization, and now the host of a radio show that...
Analysis: America risks losing its voice as trade ties strengthen between EU and Japan
Major economies show no inclination to accept U.S. designs on trade, an attitude on display as the European Union and Japan agreed to the broad...