A Moral Challenge to Economists
Economists hide behind specious claims of neutrality and efficiency to advocate policies that often have negative moral and social impact.
Read more...Economists hide behind specious claims of neutrality and efficiency to advocate policies that often have negative moral and social impact.
Read more...Mourning the death of a favorite business, and what that says about the environment for entrepreneurs.
Read more...‘Respectable’ news outlets have been feeding their readers ‘fake news’ for years now. 2017 will see changes in the offing, as we downsize.
Read more...Why “Buy American” is going to be a tough sale for Trump.
Read more...The failure to do enough deficit spending is a big reason why the Democrats hemorrhaged losses. Progressives need to take up this issue.
Read more...Why macroeconomic models perform so badly.
Read more...Storied short seller Jim Chanos takes a long view of recent political and economic changes, including, of course, the Trump win.
Read more...The Monte dei Paschi domino is finally about to fall. But what does that mean in practice?
Read more...Brexit negotiators seem clueless about how to get out of their own way. Here’s why.
Read more...In this Real News Network segment, Bill Black describes why elite banksters will have a free hand if Trump gets his appointees through. Although Black focuses here on just departed Goldmanite Gary Cohn, the Democrats ought to put up a pitched battle over another Goldman alum, Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s Treasury Secretary nominee. Mnuchin is unqualified […]
Read more...To what degree is Trump Tower a canary in the coal mine for New York City’s residential real estate market?
Read more...More proof that the Italian rejection of Renzi’s constitutional reform referendum was not a simple “populist uprising”.
Read more...The Democrats abandoned the working classes long ago and like an abusive spouse, never thought their victims would leave them.
Read more...Neoliberal capitalism has led to underinvestment, lowering productivity and increasing inequality. Will Trump make things better or worse?
Read more...A wide-ranging interview by Michael Hudson on the mind games that economists play.
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