Book Review: Two Critiques of America’s Ailing Health Care System
Two new books chronicle the shortcomings of the nation’s health care system, if you can call it that.
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BRICS’ Expansion Is Beneficial But It Also Isn’t Without Strategic Challenges
BRICS is set to add important new members…but will their diversity complicate coming to common policy stances?
Read more...The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility
Stock buybacks, aka corporate financialization, as a mode of predatory value extraction
Read more...China Schizophrenia: Jake Sullivan Makes Demands, Press Fulminates Its Ambitions as While Overhyping Current Economic Wobbles
The West’s discomfort over China’s influence and economic stature is sometimes a bit too obvious.
Read more...Ann Pettifor Explains Why Neoclassical Economists Are the Last People To Listen to on Climate Change
A well-warranted takedown of the irresponsible and destructive record of mainstream economists on climate change.
Read more...Fed Ponders How Quickly to Try to Inflict More Pain on the Economy to Get Inflation to 2%
Debates inside and outside the Fed as to what it should do next about inflation pick up as its annual Jackson Hole conference approaches.
Read more...A Russian Paper on New Currency/International Reserve Options Finds No Magic Bullets
A recent paper in a Russian economics journal confirms that there is no simple way out of the dollar hegemony box.
Read more...How Javier Milei Upset Argentina’s Political Status Quo
Yves here. We’re featuring a post from openDemocracy on Argentina’s primary results that had far-right candidate Javier Milei beating the candidates of the two parties that have been in power for two decades. The post is telling, and not in a good way. Milei does advocate extreme views (not that he can go as far […]
Read more...BRICS Officially Confirmed That It Doesn’t Want To De-Dollarize & Isn’t Anti-Western
Yet more evidence that the BRICS aren’t ready to launch a serious anti-dollar/new currency regime.
Read more...Investors Start Thinking About Underpricing of Climate Risk
Some investors are worried that climate risk means their holdings are overvalued. It would be nicer if they worried about the real world too.
Read more...NAM 2.0+G77 vs G7+NATO+OECD+WEF
Jomo warns US policies are creating war and depression, pushing developing nations to strengthen democratic institutions of global governance
Read more...Scientism as a Non-Solution to a Problem that Should Not Exist vs. Science as a Solution to a Problem that Must Be Fixed
KLG continues his investigation of scientism by looking at two canard-infested areas: plastic recycling and industial food production.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Debt, Sponsors of the Wars, Future of USD and BRICS
ichael Hudson on topics old and new: the role of debt in rentier extraction and US hegemony, and the prosepcts for the dollar and BRICS.
Read more...How to Fix Monetary Policy in Advanced Countries
The monetary policy of major central banks in advanced economies have had negative consequences and thus need to be fixed.
Read more...European Gas Price Spike Highlights Painful Exposure To Global Markets
A strike in Australia could reduce global LNG supplies by 10%. European energy security is not what it used to be.
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