Ilargi: China Relies On Property Bubbles To Prop Up GDP
More concerned tea-leaf reading in the wake of a BIS report that sounded alarms about China’s debt growth.
Read more...More concerned tea-leaf reading in the wake of a BIS report that sounded alarms about China’s debt growth.
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Read more...Has the progressive left in western democracies forgotten how to embrace the mainstream? When I compare the approach which anti-neoliberal causes take in the U.S. and Europe with the approach taken by the same causes in Asian countries, especially Japan, I can only say yes, it has. One explanation for how pro-labor movements have been […]
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Read more...Is the ECB’s latest bond-buying program creating corporate winners and losers?
Read more...Picking apart the conflation of real capital with finance capital and explaining how that confusion undermines sound analysis of the crisis.
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