China’s Belt and Road Initiative vs Washington Consensus
An update by Jomo Kwame Sundaram on how China and the US are faring in their use of trade and development policy to foster growth and project power.
Read more...An update by Jomo Kwame Sundaram on how China and the US are faring in their use of trade and development policy to foster growth and project power.
Read more...FIS and Worldpay are merging, hyping that they’ll be a bank in a box. Clive looks under the hood and doen’t like what he sees.
Read more...How China is cuttting into America’s technology advantage, and how the US can respond.
Read more...Chronicling and debunking more scurrilous attacks against MMT.
Read more...A high-level discussion of some of the operational issues posed by a Green New Deal.
Read more...Economists should stop pretending to be scientists and go back to the core of the discipline—as a field of inquiry and way of thinking
Read more...The ECB again rides in to try to paper over fundamental problems with the EU’s structure and to offset is austerity bias by restarting QE. But the EU needs more government spending. Will it take another crisis to get there?
Read more...On the remarkable surge of interest in and attacks against MMT by mainstream economists and pundits.
Read more...China wins big in trade in 2018.
Read more...Gail Tverberg extends her peak oil analysis to coal and finds a similar pattern.
Read more...What did China gain when the US lost manufacturing jobs?
Read more...More proof that letting banks have their way is not such a good idea…at least for non-financiers.
Read more...The debate over the Green New Deal reinforces why government policy should focus on real resource constraints.
Read more...Motion on the Brexit front does not necessarily amount to progress.
Read more...A look at the history of the rise in inequality in the US.
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