Debt Relief or a Fourth Financial Assistance Program for Greece?
Greece continues to be broken on the rack of austerity. How far might the IMF’s insistence on reducing the pain level actually get?
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Gaius Publius: The Dying Fossil Fuel Industry
The oil industry is on a downward trend, and the trajectory could be faster than most anticipate.
Read more...The New Normal: Demand, Secular Stagnation and the Vanishing Middle-Class
Discusses twin diseases stymieing US middle-class– secular stagnation and the polarization of jobs and incomes– and potential policy cures.
Read more...Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Renounces Commitment to Glass-Steagall While Saying He Isn’t
Steven Mnuchin demonstrates that he is a shameless liar even by Goldman standards.
Read more...Mr. Market Starts to Question Trump Trade Delusion
A look at the “Trump trade” pearl clutching yesterday.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Did Cisco Just Say Demand is “Very Lumpy?”
Look out below: Cisco has a history of being the canary in the coal mine at market turns.
Read more...Hayek and Neoclassicals Meet Information Theory and Fail
Why the left doesn’t need to engage Hayek, Friedman, and neoclassical economics but should instead argue from information theory.
Read more...China Blinks!
China taps the brake…..
Read more...New Jersey’s Flooding Crisis Hits Low-Income People Hardest
New Jersey’s flooding problems as a microcosm of what is to come.
Read more...How Financialization and the “New Economy” Hurt Science and Engineering Grads
How the “new economy” devalued science and engineering degrees.
Read more...The Role of Social Security Wealth: A Head-to-Head Comparison of Germany and the US
Crunching some numbers on the value of social safety nets shows Americans are not as well off as pundits and pols would have you believe.
Read more...China Sickening into Classic Emerging Market Crisis
More and more analysts are getting nervous about China. Are there concerns warranted?
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 4
More on how neoliberal policies around the world have hurt labor.
Read more...Hoisted from E-Mail: Puzzling Out the UK’s Shambolic Approach to Brexit
Trying to make sense of the UK’s Brexit pathology.
Read more...Growing Inequality Under Global Capitalism
The benefits of capitalism are accruing even more to a very few at the top.
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