Trump Picks Ex-Goldman Banker, Steve Mnuchin, Known as ‘King of Foreclosures’ to Head Treasury
Why you should be worried about the prospect of Steve Mnuchin as Treasury Secretary.
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India: Demonetization and its Discontents
Why have India’s citizens not reacted more forcefully to the huge disruption created by a misguided demonetization program?
Read more...Trump Starts Revealing His True Colors: Government by Plutocrats, For Plutocrats
The outlines of how Trump will govern are emerging from the fog, as revealed by his Cabinet picks. As expected, there is a lot not to like.
Read more...Trump Loves to Win, But American Generals Have Forgotten How
Trump recognizes that the senior U.S. military leadership doesn’t know how to win. But can he do anything about it?
Read more...Round Up No Suspects: The Bio Telemetry Settlement Demonstrates the Continuing Impunity of Health Care Organizational (and Other) Leaders
As has become usual in enforcement of laws regarding kickbacks, bribes, fraud etc, the case was resolved by a relatively small fine
Read more...Bill Black: Howard Dean Wants to Continue Austerity’s Assault on the Working Class
Why Democrats like Howard Dean believe in and sell austerity snake oil.
Read more...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.
Read more...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?
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