Further discussion of why the excuses to do nothing or too little on the climate change front don’t hold up to serious scrutiny.
Read more...Why the excuses to do nothing or too little on the climate change front don’t hold up to serious scrutiny.
Read more...This is a bracing, no-nonsene talk from economist Mark Blyth of Brown University, who is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century and Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea.
Read more...Has the financial sector become too large, absorbing too many resources, and enhancing instabilities?
Read more...Can China and Europe forge a pact to undercut the impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
Read more...A concise, high-level overview of the main issues at play in the Syrian conflict.
Read more...An interview with Michael Hudson on his latest book, Killing the Host, which focuses on the destruction wrought by financial capitalism.
Read more...Can Russia succeed in creating an anti-Saudi bloc to split OPEC by taking advantage of having oil supplies less vulnerable to transit risk?
Read more...As Oregoncharles put it, in terms of labor force participation, “Obama has now cancelled out the entire effect of the Women’s Movement.”
Read more...Who needs balanced trade? It’s time to challenge the premises of “trade” deals like the TransPacific Partnership.
Read more...Puzzling over the Great Divergence of real and nominal yields. Ever since the Great Depression, nominal yields have been persistently above real yields Yet in the previous 200 years, despite periods of fiat currency and high inflation, real and nominal yields didn’t diverge. Why do they now?
Read more...Greece, which has undertaken the most severe austerity, has experienced the deepest economic contraction. But the policy quackery continues.
Read more...Is nervousness and an apparent spending pullback limited to New York City affluenza, or do readers see a change in mood in their communities?
Read more...Nicholas Shaxson explains how a “Competitiveness Agenda” is being used to set industrial policies that favor the creation of what used to be called “national champions,” as in Really Big Companies. Never mind that neoliberals officially oppose anything so interventionist as industrial policy….
Read more...Why “neoliberal” is the framework that best describes our new, post 1980 form of capitalism.
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