The Fall of the Latin American Left, Part I: Brazil’s Boom and Bust
Discussing why the left in Latin America lost power, starting with Brazil.
Read more...Discussing why the left in Latin America lost power, starting with Brazil.
Read more...The distress at traditional retailers has been made much worse by private equity asset stripping rendering them fragile.
Read more...Like developing countries, America is becoming more stratified, with the economic and physical distance between rich and poor widening.
Read more...Are retail sales understated because online retailers aren’t fully captured in the data?
Read more...Depicting the gig economy as ‘sharing favours’ creates a parallel dimension, where chores are form of leisure, with no relation to ‘work’.
Read more...More evidence that austerity is a bad idea.
Read more...Why the removal of land from economic theory is a glaring oversight.
Read more...Canadian housing continues on its relentless rise because too many people can’t afford to have it stop.
Read more...Does the silver economy, meaning one where the over 65 age cohort is growing faster than other age groups, have a silver lining?
Read more...An IMF report comes up with some orthodoxy-reinfocing conclusions by failing to address some key issues.
Read more...The student debt problem is only getting worse and no one in power has any interest in addressing it.
Read more...Michael Hudson gives a high level debunking of a pet Republican canard: that government should operate like a business.
Read more...Both consumer and commercial bankruptcies spiked in March– and the oil bust’s not to blame.
Read more...The corporate savings glut has been long in the making. It’s a sign of capitalists abandoning their role of investing to pursue growth.
Read more...President Johnson’s War on Poverty reduced on poverty rates, but progress stalled over 40 years ago. But things would be even worse otherwise.
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