Satyajit Das: What If Anything Does Brexit Really Signify?
An appraisal of the Brexit sound and fury.
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Read more...Boris Johnson is now the most hated person in the Western world.
Read more...Politicians in the UK and the EU are virtually at each other’s throats over Brexit.
Read more...Getting a better picture on Brexit: the underlying class and economic stresses and how that might play into what happens next.
Read more...Michael Hudson discusses some of his favorite themes; debt deflation, the high cost of consumer debt, negative interest rates.
Read more...The unexpected impact of the fall in sterling in 2007-2008 suggests Brexit could produce a drastic drop in UK living standards.
Read more...The Brexit vote was a stunning repudiation of neoliberalism and austerity. But what comes next?
Read more...Socrates described how the use of debt by the elite to strip the lower orders of their property sets up revolutions.
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Read more...The IMF has become an unlikely reporter of unpleasant realities about the US economy, particularly the costs of inequality and distress. If only its prescriptions were better….
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Read more...Financial crises move the struggles between debtors and creditors into the political sphere.
Read more...Even those economists that think Brexit is a disastrous idea differ on how severe the downside would be.
Read more...Immigration programs need to be socially, economically and politically sustainable or they will generate resentment.
Read more...Contrary to its intent, a report explaining why labor force participation among prime-age men has fallen reveals how Obama has failed.
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