When confronted by Black Lives Matter, Sanders gave them the mike. By contrast, Clinton started temporizing and had them removed.
Read more...Why income inequality is likely to remain high.
Read more...Hillary Clinton supported policies that devastated black communities, as well as using racist code words to attract Southern whites.
Read more...The elites in America are so cloistered that Robert Reich has to tell them why the natives are restless.
Read more...Racism is alive and well in the San Francisco police force.
Read more...Krugman has really lost it.
Read more...Why the UK’s latest anti money laundering measures don’t look very convincing
Read more...Be warned: “Smart city” is the new code word for pampered, resource-hogging enclaves for the elite.
Read more...Franco Modigliani foresaw how the ECB and the Eurozone architecture had an anti-growth bias and proposed remedies that were ignored.
Read more...How to make the housing market conform to mainstream economists’ ideals.
Read more...How banks finesse cyber security risks despite hand waiving by governments and exhortations for the industry to “do something”.
Read more...Michael Hudson discusses his paper, The IMF Changes Its Rules To Isolate China and Russia, and how jockeying among the big power players is becoming more visible and higher stakes.
Read more...Germany is keen on implementing a sovereign bail-in plan that is certain to precipitate a crisis, but more likely a banking crisis than a breakup.
Read more...Governments are combining aggressive, ambitious talk with a curious helplessness in warning banks they really should be Doing Something about terrorist risk.
Read more...Utilities, with regulatory backing, are working hard to turn homeowner investments in solar into economic white elephants.
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