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December 23, 2022
Timothy Noah
Economic Indicator of the Year: Inflation
It wasn’t great, but the 1970s did not return, and in 2023 the economic indicator we’ll be talking about will be unemployment.
November 2, 2022
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
That ’70s Show
Politicians warn that we’re headed back to the 1970s. Is the fearmongering just an excuse for punishing interest-rate hikes and a revival of the same pro-business, anti-worker policies that failed us before?
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October 31, 2022
Magazine
Aaron Timms
We’re Haunted by the Economy of the 1970s
Politicians and pundits across the political spectrum warn of a return to the decade of stagflation, urban decay, and labor mutiny. Their solution? The failed policies of the 1970s.
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October 8, 2021
Magazine
Maggie Doherty
Jonathan Franzen, America’s Next Top Moralist
For years, his work has been marked by his creeping fear that the world is in need of an urgent intervention—and why not from him?
April 13, 2017
Kim Phillips-Fein
How the Rich Seized Control of New York
Today's stark inequality is a consequence of the city's crisis in the 1970s.
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