Britain After Brexit: Welcome to the Vulture Restaurant
US business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the British empire very useful.
Read more...US business will asset-strip the UK, but that’s not all: the Pentagon will find the little-known fragments of the British empire very useful.
Read more...A dubious proposal to continue over-reliance on monetary policy, this time with a quantitative easing scheme, instead of fiscal spending.
Read more...Markets are in a tizzy over the US-China trade row. But what might come next?
Read more...Estimating the scope of corruption in the college admissions process.
Read more...Mark Blyth gives a pithy talk on the economic regimes of the modern period and what is likely to be in store.
Read more...Military contractors have used the threat of US job cuts to extract more dough from American taxpayers….and then cut US jobs.
Read more...Now, after nearly half a century, the verdict on neoliberalism is in.
Read more...An update on what Trump has, or more accurately, has not, done for workers.
Read more...Young people with pretty high incomes are sinking under debt.
Read more...Transnational state capital can be just as harmful as its private counterparts. Local, democratic and sustainable alternatives offer better protection.
Read more...Democratic Party operatives would have voters focus on Trump, as opposed to the batttle within their party over the Sanders-led effort to implement policies that serve Americans broadly, not the top 10% .
Read more...Michael Hudson’s latest: Debts that can’t be paid, won’t be. When debts can’t be paid and debtors default, what happens to these creditors?
Read more...Latest DeSmogBlog coverage of fracking follies: the still unprofitable industry turns to pension funds and private equity for capital.
Read more...Angus Deaton argues that the present level of inequality is a threat to “democratic capitalism” but contends that historically, even more severe inequality has been reversed.
Read more...Quelle surprise! CEOs back parties with an eye to increasing their own power.
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