Robert Reich
The Public Record
American political economist (1946–)
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September 12, 2025
Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years.
— Robert Reich
He is the bully-in-chief. He doesn’t know how to act other than bullying.
Donald Trump is kind of the essence of what you do when you take your eyes off the prize.
Jeff Bezos is worth $230 billion and is reportedly spending $20 million on a three-day wedding in Venice while sailing around on his $500 million yacht.
This is the one thing that I agree with Donald Trump about: The economy is rigged — but it’s rigged against working-class people.
He’s exactly right. And this is a time for people to say, 'No,' in a very mass way.
Democrats cannot be afraid of sounding, what, socialist, radical? This is the time for sounding a little bit strong.
We’re not going to tolerate taking money from Medicaid, and food stamps, and nutrition, and possibly from Medicare as well, to give a big tax cut to the richest people in America when they’ve never been as rich.
We’ve got to have a Democratic Party that is not afraid, that doesn’t take big money, that says to big corporations and Wall Street, 'Too bad. We are going to represent the people.'