Mainstream economists keep reaching wrong conclusions based on bad theories, predicting that a plutocratist policy will have good results for people in general. When the opposite happens, they say, "What a surprise! Nobody could have predicted this!" Then the plutocrats forgive them so they can make more such predictions.

Integrating the US schools gave blacks a better education, and they came out better educated. Now resegregation has cancelled that out.

Wells Fargo's pressure to sell its customers more kinds of accounts was established by 2000.

The Justice Department found that Snowden was directly responsible for reducing the frequency of certain kinds of surveillance in the US.

Quantitative easing keeps wages down, hurting workers, and keeps bank interest down, hurting the middle class.