EU Dashes UK Fantasy of Talking About “Future Relationship,” Meaning Trade, Soon
Yet another Brexit fantasy bites this dust, this one the much-ballyhooed “future relationship” talks.
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What Will Replace Outdated Left and Right Economic Thinking? The Commons Paradigm
Why the commons paradigm offers an important and practical lens for re-imagining politics, governance and law.
Read more...How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
How shareholder value theory and other bad ideas created lousy incentives for corporations’ executives.
Read more...Trump Says Puerto Rico Debt Needs to be Wiped Out
Trump speaks an inconvenient truth about Puerto Rico. How long before his minders walk it back?
Read more...U.S. Shale Isn’t As Strong As It Appears
Shale production may stay in the doldrums until oil prices move higher and stay there.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Capitalism, Infinite Growth, Climate Change & Manufactured Hopelessness
Looking at the disastrously high cost of the fetishization of growth.
Read more...Standoff in Catalonia
Short term, Catalonia and Madrid are at loggerheads. The next phase is likely an escalation of violence as neither side backs down. ,
Read more...Bill Black: Marriage and the Jobs Guarantee
Conservatives are trying to blame low rates of marriage among the young on anything but the state of the economy and the job market.
Read more...Hy Minsky, Low Finance: Modern Money, Civil Rights, and Consumer Debt
MMT’s ultimate contribution to consumer finance is showing a world beyond the “Let Them Eat Debt or Let Them Eat Cash” approaches.
Read more...Employment in Europe and the US: Debunking the Story of EU Weakness and US Strength
Why the EU has done better on job creation than generally recognized, while US employment is exaggerated.
Read more...Wall Street Got a Bailout, Why Not Puerto Rico?
How Puerto Rico has gone from an economic disaster area to a humanitarian crisis in the making.
Read more...Wall Street and City of London Getting Nervous About Catalonia
Yves here. Neither side appears willing to back down in the battle of wills over the Catalonia independence vote set for this Sunday, October 1. The English language press has described how the Spanish government has declared the election to be illegal and Mariano Rajoy’s government has moved to try to shut it down, for […]
Read more...Brexit Denialism: The Customs/Border Problem and the Curious Case of the Pallets
A case study of how basic, critically important Brexit issues like customs are being ignored by the Government, to the peril of the public.
Read more...Out of Africa: Why the Migration Wave?
Why are so many risking their lives to flee Africa?
Read more...Rumors of Japan’s Imminent Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Why you should not believe media accounts that depict Japan as a basket case in the making.
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