Dollars & Sense

Last summer, the Trump White House issued an executive order titled “Democratizing Access to Alternative Assets for 401(k) Investors.” This order is not about democratization. I...

Chris Sturr, co-editor of Dollars & Sense, interviewed D&S columnist John Miller about his feature article "The Economics of Trump's War with Iran," from our May/June 2026 issue. The interview was conducted on April 21, and airs on the April 23rd episode of

Most measures of economic well-being in the United States are based on dollars earned or dollars spent, but we don’t live in an entirely market-based economy. The annual American Time Use Survey shows that we spend, on average, about as much t...

The jobs report for March was a mixed bag. The unemployment rate fell another tenth of a percentage point to 4.3%. And in almost every sub-category it fell a little too. NJFAN’s hidden unemployment rate did not see much improvement either. The number of people stuck in part-time work because they could not find full-time positions inched up from 4.4 to 4.5 million. Combining ...

This is the first of a two-part series that covers President Donald Trump’s devastating cuts to the already dysfunctional U.S. health care system and the need for Medicare for All.

The Trump administration has been rolling out disasters on a near-daily basis since Trump returned to office 15 months ago, with the latest installment being, of course, his current ...