Thomas Frank: How Democrats Created Liberalism of the Rich
Make no mistake; the Democrats engineered the Third Way faux liberalism that sold out the working classes to benefit the rich and their minions.
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Wolf Richter: World Trade Collapses in Dollars, Languishes in Volume
A rout in world trade that started in June 2014 shows no sign of getting better.
Read more...Don Quijones: Brexit Meltdown at the Bank of England
The current and former governors of the Bank of England are singing from very different hymnals on the subject of Brexit.
Read more...Michael Pettis: Trump and the Re-Emergence of the Jacksonians
Why Trump represents a recurring set of grievances in American politics, and elites are making a mistake in dismissing them.
Read more...Robert Reich: 5 Reasons Why Trump’s and Cruz’s Tax Plans are Huge Giveaways to the Rich
Trump’s tax plan reveals that his economic populism is three-card Monte.
Read more...Assuming Away Unemployment and Trade Deficits from the TPP
It should come as no surprise that the Peterson Institute has managed to model the impact of the TPP so that it does not increase unemployment.
Read more...The Refugee Crisis: A European Call for Action
A proposal for how to overcome the lack of consensus in Europe over the refugee crisis.
Read more...Peter Van Buren: Five Questions You Probably Won’t Hear in the Presidential Debates
The presidential debates carefully tip-toe around basic foreign policy and domestic security issues. Time to lift the cone of silence.
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: Chancellor Merkel Victrix
Merkel took a big setback in Sunday’s regional elections, but what do they portend?
Read more...Nicholas Shaxson: Why “National Competitiveness” is Like Ice Cream
Beware of accounting firms playing with numbers to push tax competitiveness, as in tax breaks.
Read more...Gaius Publius: When Trump Talks Trade, Voters Listen
It’s easier for liberals to blame Trump voters for racism than to blame themselves for the job-loss and pain of the working class.
Read more...HSBC’s Money Laundering Nightmare (2): Mossack Fonseca, a Year in Words and Pictures, March 2015-March 2016
Mossack Fonseca and its trail of street protests: they are in it up to their thighs, and HSBC’s Stuart Gulliver has “no idea”.
Read more...Could This Lawsuit Be the Straw That Breaks the TPP’s Back?
TransCanada has filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the US under NAFTA or scuttling its cross-border pipeline. The TPP gives foreign investors even stronger rights.
Read more...Krugman Then and Now on Trade
Krugman shifts ground (yet again) as hostility to the negative effects of trade deals appears to be a big component of Sanders’ Michigan upset
Read more...Life after Brexit: The UK’s Options Outside the EU
What are UK’s options if a majority votes in favour of Brexit this June?
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