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John Cassidy

New York

Economics Columnist at The New Yorker

Staff Writer @NewYorker. New book: "Capitalism & It's Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to A.I." An "intelligent beach read"--the Telegraph.

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  • 1 week ago | newyorker.com | John Cassidy

    Last week, at a White House meeting with the C.E.O.s of Uber, Goldman Sachs, and Salesforce, Donald Trump touted “a pro-family initiative that will help millions of Americans harness the strength of our economy to lift up the next generation.” He was referring to a provision in the tax-and-spending bill that House Republicans pushed through in May, which would establish tax-deferred investment accounts for every child born in the United States during the next four years, with the federal...

  • 2 weeks ago | newyorker.com | John Cassidy

    John Cassidy writes about the Illinois businessman Rick Woldenberg’s legal battle against Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariffs.

  • 3 weeks ago | armaghi.com | John Cassidy

    Two men were today (Friday) found guilty of the “carefully planned and brutal assassination” of convicted criminal Malcolm McKeown almost six years ago. Jake O’Brien (30) and Andrew Thomas Kenneth Martin (29) were also found guilty of possession of two guns used to murder the 54-year-old at close range.

  • 4 weeks ago | lse.ac.uk | John Cassidy

    LSE Player is home to the latest films and podcasts from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Here you can watch videos on cutting edge research, find the award-winning LSE IQ podcast, and listen to more than 5,000 public event recordings featuring some of the world’s leading thinkers.

  • 1 month ago | newyorker.com | John Cassidy

    As Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans were struggling to pass their budget-busting tax-and-spending bill last week—they eventually got it through by a single vote—my mind went back more than three decades to February, 1993, when, in a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, the newly inaugurated President Bill Clinton met with some of his aides to finalize an economic plan to present to Congress.

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RT @PatRyanUC: I served two combat tours in Iraq. Trump’s dangerous politicization of our military yesterday at Ft. Bragg crossed a brigh…

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RT @JohnCassidy: The tariffs story is ongoing in many dimensions, including the legal one. For my latest column, I interviewed the owner of…

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12 Jun 25

RT @GavinNewsom: Your homicide rate is literally DOUBLE California’s.