Italy’s New Prime Minister Conte Says Euro Exit Off the Table, But Mr. Market Pouts About Spending Talk
Italy’s new government makes some opening moves.
Read more...Italy’s new government makes some opening moves.
Read more...Correcting some misunderstanding about proposed monetary reforms that are the subject of a referendum this weekend.
Read more...Taking stock of the opening moves in the confrontation between Italy’s upstarts and the European establishment.
Read more...Markets wail and gnash their teeth as normalization of Italian yields sets in.
Read more...How the media became the useful idiot of neoliberalism.
Read more...Identifying issues that may influence how Italy’s political crisis over the rejection of a Lega Nord-5 Star economy minister plays out.
Read more...Italy’s much ballyhooed populism is looking a lot like a sellout.
Read more...The risks of introducing a central bank digital currency are high while the efficiency gains do not seem large. A more efficient system can be achieved via innovation in current payment infrastructure.
Read more...Why recent employment statistics are giving an unduly rosy picture of the state of the US labor market.
Read more...A short and devastating proof that QE was a bust in Japan.
Read more...Thoughts on how to present progressive policies without triggering “you mean tax and spend” reflexes.
Read more...Taking on the biggest, bogus excuse for not adopting Medicare for All.
Read more...Like it or not, Milton Friedman is still very much with us.
Read more...This column summarizes research indicating that stabilizing the real economy raises the long-run level of output.
Read more...How fiat money denialism, also know as austerity and deficit scaremongering, is undermining the public’s ability to tackle pressing challenges like climate change.
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