Michael Hudson on the History of Debt Cancellation, Austerity in Europe, January 2020
Michael Husdon reviews the key themes of his recent book, ……and Forgive Them Their Debts, and discusses German austerity.
Read more...Michael Husdon reviews the key themes of his recent book, ……and Forgive Them Their Debts, and discusses German austerity.
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Read more...North West Leicesteshirer MP Andrew Bridgen demands answer on contemporary working conditions at local fast fashion factories.
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Read more...‘Free market’ advocates claim that the rise of precarity was inevitable, as opposed to the result of political decisions.
Read more...Matt Stoller explains how economics reinforces established power relations.
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Read more...A vignette from a homeless encampment.
Read more...Harvard graduate students are on strike demanding fairer wages, adequate healthcare, and protections from discrimination.
Read more...A theory about why things are a mess.
Read more...Johns Hopkins researchers document failure of FDA opioids regulation; maybe more effective regulation could have averted the opioids crisis.
Read more...Team Trump keeps soldiering along with its pro-corporate agenda.
Read more...Amazon takes over the last mile and everything else.
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