Dollars & Sense Issue 377 (March/April 2025)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors’ Note
"It’s Not Rocket Science"

The Short Run

Cartoon
"AI: Pitch vs. Reality"

Up Against the Wall Street Journal
"Trump's Dumb and Dumber Tariffs," John Miller

Making Sense
"The Opening Moves in the New War on Workers," Nick French

Features
"The Monster That Government Made," Marie Christine Duggan

"The Richmond Progressive Alliance Has Won Elections and Made City Hall Better for 20 Years," Steve Early

"The Burning of (Parts of) Los Angeles," Bill Barclay

Economy in Narrative
"Marriage Plots in Two Ages of Inequality," Zoe Sherman

In Review
"The Suprisingly Early Roots of Neoliberalism," Jawied Nawabi

Economy in Numbers
"Climate Change Disasters and the Housing Crisis," by Ed Ford