Society is crumbling because of political elites’ overconfidence in the free market: New York Times economist

On Tuesday, Greg Sargent of the Washington Post interviewed Binyamin Appelbaum, an economics writer for The New York Times, who discussed his new book, The Economists’ Hour. Appelbaum argued that much of the modern political shambles in America, with skyrocketing inequality, unchecked corporate power, and a polarized gravitation of voters towards left-wing populists like Sen. […]CONTINUE READING >>>