Commentary
Trump Is Setting the U.S. Economy up for Another Great Financial Crisis
Truthout, Interview, June 2025
What Does Trump’s Economic Chaos Mean for the Global Financial System?
Truthout, Interview, May 2025
The Impact of Tariffs on Local and Global Economies
Mass Appeal, Interview, May 2025
Public Banking in the Age of Trump: Needed More than Ever but Can it Find a Beachhead?
Just Money, Commentary, February 2025
Breaking Up the Bankers' Club
The Mint, Interview, October 2024
Interest Rate Cuts Now Could Help Workers. But That’s Not Who the Fed Serves.
Truthout, Interview, August 2024
Challenging the Bankers' Club: The Fight for an Equitable Financial System
Lean to the Left podcast, Commentary, July 2024
"Busting the Bankers' Club" Book Talk on C-SPAN
C-SPAN Book TV, Presentation, April 2024
To Democratize Finance, We Must Take the Banks Away From the Bankers
Truthout, Interview, February 2024
A Growing Number of Economists Are Joining the Fight to Rein In the Big Banks
Truthout, Interview, February 2024
SEC’s Approval of Bitcoin Markets May Set the Stage for Financial Disaster
Commentary, February 2024
Gerald Epstein: "Busting the Bankers' Club: Finance for the Rest of Us"
Commentary, January 2024
How Bankers Profit from Our Broken Economic System
Commentary, January 2024
How to Create a More Equitable Financial System for the Rest of Us
Commentary, January 2024
Is the U.S. Dollar on the Verge of Being Dethroned as the World’s Currency?
Commentary, July 2023
The Financial Crisis of 2023: Protecting Big Finance Coming and Going
Commentary, March 2023
Three Banks Have Now Collapsed. A Progressive Economist Explains Why
Commentary, March 2023
Federal Reserve Is Throwing Workers out of Work to Save the Rich
Commentary, February 2023
How the Federal Reserve Protects the Top One Percent
With Aaron Medlin
Commentary, January 2023
The Fed’s Response to Rising Inflation Protects the Wealthy at Workers’ Expense
Commentary, November 2022
Hiking Interest Rates Protects Financial Assets of the 1% at Workers’ Expense
Commentary, July 2022
Comment on "Raising Keynes": Central Banks, Uncertainty and the Socialization of Investment
Commentary, April 2022
Inflation and Its Effect on Our Day-to-Day Lives
Commentary, March 2022
Biden Shouldn’t Reappoint Powell to Federal Reserve. He’s Soft on Wall Street.
Commentary, September 2021
Neoliberalism’s Bailout Problem
With Robert Pollin
Commentary, June 2021
Public Banking Can Improve the Lives of U.S. Workers While Helping Save the Planet
Commentary, June 2021
The Global Economy in the Age of the Pandemic and Beyond
With Robert Pollin
Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Is a Vital Beginning for a New New Deal
With Robert Pollin
Commentary, January 2021
Are Bankers Essential Workers Doing “God’s Work?”
Commentary, November 2020
The Global Economy in the Age of the Pandemic and Beyond
with Robert Pollin, Global Policy, Interview, April 2021
Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Is a Vital Beginning for a New New Deal
with Robert Pollin, Truthout, Interview, January 2021
Are Bankers Essential Workers Doing “God’s Work?”
Interview, November 2020
Understanding the Presidential Election’s Impact on the Domestic and International Economy
WWLP's Mass Appeal, Interview, September 2020
If the Fed Can Bail Out Wall Street, It Can Rescue Public Education
Truthout, Interview, August 2020
Make the Fed Publicly Owned and the Foundation of a Public Banking System
Interview, July 2020
What's Wrong with Modern Money Theory?
New Books, Podcast, July 2020
Human Capital Bonds and Federal Reserve Support for Public Education
Just Money
Debts and Deficits: What Are the Limits, and Why?
American Prospect, April 2020
The Fed and the Coronavirus
Dollars & Sense, April 2020
The Coronavirus Consensus: "Spend, Spend, Spend"
March 2020
Central Bank Independence Is a Myth. They Need to Be Democratized.
The Real News Network, Interview, November 2019
Modern Monetary Theory: A Debate Between Gerald Epstein and Randall Wray
The Real News Network, Interview, April 2019
Unemployment Is Down - Why Aren't Wages Up?
The Real News Network, Interview, April 2019
Trump’s 2020 Budget Rewards the Wealthiest Individuals
Truthout, Interview, March 2019
Is MMT "America First" Economics?
Institute for New Economic Thinking, Commentary, January 2019
Trump’s Trade Policy Towards China: A Distraction to Benefit the Rich
The Real News Network, Interview, December 2018
U.S. Unemployment Rate Hits 50-Year Low: What Does the Number Reveal and Conceal?
The Real News Network, Interview, October 2018
Will Trump's Policies Wreak Havoc on the U.S. and Global Economics?
with C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout, Interview, October 2018
Is a New Global Financial Crisis Imminent?
The Real News Network, Interview, September 2018
The Economy Under Trump: Business Optimism Combined with Inequality
The Real News Network, Interview, September 2018
Rapid GDP Growth: Does Trump Deserve the Credit?
The Real News Network, Interview, August 2018
Is There Another Financial Crisis in the Works?
The Real News Network, Interview, July 2018
Goodbye Regulations, Hello Impending Global Financial Crisis
Truthout, Commentary, July 2018
Defiant Trump Ignites Trade War with Canada and G-7 Allies
The Real News Network, Interview, June 2018
Does Iron Fist Imperialism Benefit U.S. Workers?
The Real News Network, Interview, May 2018
The Finance Curse
Tax Justice Network, Presentation, March 2018
Trump's Tax Plan Won't Boost Economy or Create Jobs
The Real News Network, Interview, October 2017
Bannon Fired from White House
The Real News Network, Interview, August 2017
Trump and the Infrastructure of Fascism
TripleCrisis Blog, Commentary, August 2017
Financial Globalization Can Wreck Societies and the World Economy
Rozenberg Quarterly, Truthout, and ZNet, Commentary, July 2017
If Yellen Is Out, What's Next for the Fed?
The Real News Network, Interview, July 2017
Resistance in the Age of Trumpism: An Interview with Gerald Epstein
Truthout, Interview, May 2017
Trump's New Glass-Steagall Act May Deregulate Finance Sector Even More - Interview
The Real News Network, Interview, May 2017
A Letter from France on the French Election: Interview with Dominique Plihon
Interview, May 2017
"The Greatest Jobs Producer God Ever Created"
with Peter Rugh, The Indypendent, March 2017
U.S. Finance Sector Serves as Net Drag on Economy
Tax Justice Network, Interview, March 2017
Trumponomics: Total resistance or selective engagement?
Salon, Interview, February 2017
Trumponomics: Empowering Proto-Fascists
The Real News Network, Interview, February 2017
Trumponomics: Should We Just Say "No"?
TripleCrisis Blog, Interview, February 2017
Why Rolling Back Dodd-Frank Won't Benefit Small Businesses
The Real News Network, Interview, February 2017
Why the Federal Reserve Needs to Go Beyond Interest Rate Policy
The Real News Network, Interview, September 2016
Italian Bank Failures Could Disintegrate the EU
The Real News Network, Interview, July 2016
Why Bankers and Financiers Benefit from Low Inflation Policy
The Real News Network, Interview, July 2016
Poll: Most Americans Believe the Economy Is Rigged Against Them
The Real News Network, Interview, July 2016
Inflation Targeting Neoliberalism
TripleCrisis Blog, Interview, May 2016
Paul Krugman Crosses the Line
TripleCrisis Blog, Commentary, April 2016
From Boring Banking to Roaring Banking: How the financial sector grew out of control, and how we can change it
Dollars & Sense, Interview, July 2015
Volcker Rule: Swiss-Cheesed or Beefed Up?
Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, Journal Article, April 2014
Busting the Bankers' Club
Finance for the Rest of Us
"Epstein...explains our complex, captured financial system to the lay reader. In simple, clear prose, he outlines why we are still fighting financial fires, and what we can do to bridge the Wall Street-Main Street divide."
Rana Foroohar, Associate Editor, Financial Times