Trumpism Has Dealt a Mortal Blow to Orthodox Economics and ‘Social Science’
Why Trumpism caused mainstream ‘social science’ to fall like a house of cards.
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Washington Post Promotes Shadowy Website That Accuses 200 Publications of Being Russian Propaganda Plants
McCarthyism lives! A site with no credentials and no evidence has smeared over 200 sites, including ours, as Russian stooges.
Read more...Cutting Company Taxes is a Race to the Bottom
Corporations are winning an ideological battle, securing lower income taxes around the world. But how far can this trend go?
Read more...Bill Black: Krugman’s Failure to Speak Truth to Power About Austerity
Krugman’s fiscal orthodoxy led him to enable Hillary’s disastrous embrace of austerity rather than call her out for it.
Read more...Donald Trump: “My 100-Day Action Plan”
A look at Trump’s major proposals.
Read more...Italy’s Bank Rescues Founder, With Small Savers and Prime Minister Renzi as Casualties
Italian banks may start bail-ins at the worst possible time for Matteo Renzi and his constitutional reforms.
Read more...It’s Class, Stupid, Not Race
How the Democratic Party’s divisive focus on identity politics and race backfired.
Read more...Mark Blyth and Wendy Schiller – Election 2016: What Happened and Why?
Mark Blyth gives yet another colorful, incisive, and spot on reading of politics, this time of the US election and the political outlook.
Read more...France Plans to Implement Universal Biometric IDs
France seeks to implement a variant of a biometric ID database that was nixed by its courts. Will this succeed and set a dangerous precedent?
Read more...Will Trump Be Rolled by the Republican Establishment?
If Trump is serious about policies like rebuilding infrastructure and reducing foreign conflicts, can he prevail over his party’s establishment?
Read more...Panama Papers: The Role of Western Secrecy Jurisdictions in Looting Africa
Africa, despite having many of the poorest countries in the world, is nevertheless a capital exporter due to bank secrecy and tax gaming.
Read more...The Old Democrat Wall Street Plus Identity Politics Playbook is Dead
The Democrats need to reinvent themselves. Appeals to identity politics will not deliver enough votes.
Read more...Gaius Publius: TPP Is a Monopoly Protection Scheme, the Exact Opposite of a “Free Trade” Deal
Obama is determined to pass the TPP in the lame duck session, so yet another reminder of what this deal is really about.
Read more...Judge Jed Rakoff Throws Down Gauntlet to Judges on Lack of Due Process in America
How the judicial system is failing ordinary Americans and why judges need to address this large and growing problem.
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