In America’s Drone Wars, Collateral Damage Comes Home
Why you should care about America’s drone wars: among other things, they radicalize populations against us and traumatize the operators.
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Soros Warns of 2008-Like Debt Growth in China. How Risky are Its Banks?
Is China as at much risk as Soros suggests it is?
Read more...The Rise of the Right Wing Populist: Blame It on the Banks
Contrary to popular belief, the shift to the right is not due to immigration as much as the financial crisis and its aftermath.
Read more...Greece-Troika Train Wreck Shaping Up for July Despite IMF Leak
As hard as it seems to believe, the IMF is shaping up as a less bad actor in the continuing Greece austerity saga. Germany finance minister Wolfgang Schauble, by contrast, seems emboldened by Merkel’s fallen stature, which couldn’t come at a worse time for Greece.
Read more...Youth Unemployment in the Mediterranean Region and its Long-Term Implications
The data on European youth unemployment is sobering, and the migrant influx is making a bad situation worse.
Read more...America: No Country for Old People
It’s not easy being old and it’s only going to get harder in America.
Read more...Five Big Banks Get Bad Grades on Living Wills, No One Gets Clean Pass; Admission That “Too Big to Fail” is Alive and Well
The practical and political consequences of no big banks getting a pass on their living wills.
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: The Remarkable World of Angela Merkel and Her Friends
With friends like Merkel’s, who needs enemies?
Read more...Housing’s “Deadly Embrace” in Financial Cycles
The IMF argues that regulating mortgages is not sufficient to prevent housing booms and busts.
Read more...Can We Cut Carbon Emissions and Still Have Economic Growth?
This Real News Network segment marshals data to make a provocative argument: there are more ways to decouple carbon emissions and GDP growth than most observers believe.
Read more...Paul Krugman Crosses the Line
Krugman is increasingly discrediting himself as a commentator on economics.
Read more...Jamie Dimon Tells Us We Need to Leave Too Big to Fail Banks Alone
Jamie Dimon likes to write grandiose letters to shareholders. This year’s version is no exception.
Read more...How the United States Became a Prisoner of War and Congress Went MIA
How Congress gave the President a blank check for never-ending war.
Read more...Leaked Memo Reveals IMF (Still) Wants Out of Greece Bailout and Plots to Pressure Germany to Act
A new leak shows the IMF as the least bad actor of the Troika, which given its record as a neoliberal fist in third world countries, speaks volumes about European politics.
Read more...A Wake-Up Call on Climate Change and Clean Energy
Why 2017 could be an event horizon as far as climate change is concerned.
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