UK, EU Talk Past Each Other on Brexit Negotiations
The disconnect between the UK and EU over Brexit basics revealed yesterday was disconcerting.
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Patrick Cockburn: How Neoliberalism and Cold War Obsessions Fractured the Middle East
How neoliberalism, the resource curse, and military interventions by Washington and its allies, profoundly destabilized the Middle East.
Read more...How Brexit Threatens to Turn the UK Into “Borisland”
How the Tories and UKIP intend to use Brexit to impose permanent austerity and reduce workers’ rights.
Read more...Boris “Just Kidding” Johnson Outlines His Rainbows and Unicorns Brexit Plan
Boris Johnson is now the most hated person in the Western world.
Read more...Private Equity Expert/Reformer Opposes California Treasurer Chiang’s Now-Phony “Fee Transparency” Bill
A key private equity reformer weighs in against the current version of California Treasurer Chiang’s fatally weakened transparency bill.
Read more...Brexit: Fear, Loathing, and Anger on Both Sides of the Channel
Politicians in the UK and the EU are virtually at each other’s throats over Brexit.
Read more...MIchael Hudson: The Slow Crash
Michael Hudson discusses some of his favorite themes; debt deflation, the high cost of consumer debt, negative interest rates.
Read more...California Treasurer Chiang’s Private Equity Transparency Three Card Monte
California Treasurer John Chiang promised landmark private equity transparency but instead acted as a stooge of the private equity industry and failed to stand up to captured public pension funds.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Socrates on Debt and Ibn Khaldun on the Cyclical Rise and Fall of Societies
Socrates described how the use of debt by the elite to strip the lower orders of their property sets up revolutions.
Read more...IMF Warns That Inequality, Poverty, Low Productivity Growth, Falling Workforce Participation Will Drag on US Growth
The IMF has become an unlikely reporter of unpleasant realities about the US economy, particularly the costs of inequality and distress. If only its prescriptions were better….
Read more...Sanders Has Leverage But Clinton Will Never Bargain
Clinton can offer nothing meaningful to Sanders and his supporters, and therefore Sanders has no reason to capitulate. Not hard to understand unless you are committed to not understanding that.
Read more...Enforcement of Puerto Rico’s Colonial Debt Pushes Out Young Workers
Yves here. This post corrects some of the misleading accounts of the history of the Puerto Rico’s debt crisis and describes how the neoliberal remedy is producing an Ireland-style exodus of the young. By José A. Laguarta Ramírez. Originally published at Triple Crisis At least 23 of the 49 people killed in the mass shooting […]
Read more...How Financial Crises Produce Political Polarization
Financial crises move the struggles between debtors and creditors into the political sphere.
Read more...Corruption of FDA Clinical Trials Reports: The Problem and a Proposed Remedy
Big Pharma lies via medical publications, and the FDA shuts its eyes to this ruse in clinical trials. Time to put it to a stop.
Read more...Questioning Immigration is Not Racism
Immigration programs need to be socially, economically and politically sustainable or they will generate resentment.
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