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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
-- James Baldwin

Jeff Faux founded the Economic Policy Institute in Washington DC, where he is now Distinguished Fellow. His latest book is The Servant Economy: Where America's Elite is Sending the Middle Class (June 2012. Wiley). He also wrote The Global Class War, and five other books. He has lectured widely in the US and abroad. Among other experiences, he has been a government economist, a finance company manager, a merchant seaman, a bartender and a blueberry farmer.

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TPP: The “National Security” Sales Pitch

by jeff.faux • November 10, 2016

During the 1993 congressional debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement, a Democratic Congressman with a solid pro-labor voting record asked me why I thought NAFTA would be bad for working people. “Well, you may be right about the…

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• Provocative and brutally honest, this book takes up where almost all current books on the economic and political crisis leave off, looking not simply at how we got here, but where we are going.

Americans are in denial...Our much-touted service economy will become a "servant" economy. Debt-laden 20-someting college graduates will become 30- and 40- somethings, still juggling dead-end jobs. Pesonal dignity will go the way of decent pay.... The core problem, argues Faux, is not that we don't know what to do... FOR MORE, CLICK ON "THE SERVANT ECONOMY" AVAILABLE WHEREVER PRINT AND E-BOOKS ARE SOLD

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Jeff Faux

Official Jeff Faux website

Can Democrats Defeat the Fascist Threat?

Is Trump Taking Us to a Major War?

Equity buyouts

Inequality and Permanent War

How The Democrats Elected Trump

The GOP goes hard right

Interview, Part 1: The Hunger Games Economy.

Interview, Part 2: In the Shadow of Ronald Reagan

Interview, Part 3:Obama and the March of Folly

Interview, Part 4: Danger from the Right

Tag Archive for trade as a weapon

TPP: The “National Security” Sales Pitch

by jeff.faux • November 10, 2016

The Servant Economy: Where America is Headed

Looking Ahead