Ilargi: Marine Le Pen Will Reap What The EU Has Sown
Thanks to EU and Eurozone misrule, Le Pen is right when she says: “Nothing can stop us”.
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Debunking “The Big Short”: How Michael Lewis Turned the Real Villains of the Crisis into Heroes
How Michael Lewis’ The Big Short, whether for profit or by accident, has denied the public the truth about what really causes the crisis.
Read more...Ilargi: CON21
To halt the demise of the planet, you can’t rely on the same people who cause it.
Read more...US Life Expectancy Flat for Third Year
The fact that life expectancy in the US is no longer rising, in a time of economic growth, is yet another sign of underlying societal decay.
Read more...Gauis Publius: Making the US a Petro-State – White House Keeps Alive GOP Hopes for Lifting the Oil Export Ban
Why lifting the oil export ban is “appeasement” of Big Oil and needs to be stopped.
Read more...Timothy Geithner Corrupting Youth, Um, Telling His Version of the Crisis
In case living through the crisis and its aftermath wasn’t bad enough, you can hear Timothy Geithner’s version of events…at your expense.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The IMF Changes Its Rules….for Ukraine
The IMF has now been drawn into the U.S. Cold War orbit.
Read more...Even Bank Supporters Arguing for Restoration of Glass Steagall
John Dizard, who perhaps by virtue of being one of the Financial Times’ most original and insightful columnists, is relegated to its weekend “Wealth” section, has written a particularly important pair of articles. Note that Dizard’s ambit is not policy wonkery but apt and often cynical observations about behavior and trading patterns in less visible […]
Read more...Gauis Publius: Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton & America’s Endless War
Does America have the wars it seeks and deserves? And what do Sanders and Clinton say about that?
Read more...Wolf Richter: “Distress” in US Corporate Debt Spikes to 2009 Level
Experts expected bankruptcies of highly levered borrowers in 2013-2014, but cheap refis under ZIRP bailed them out. We are again at peak leverage, but this time, there’s no prospect of lower rates to provide a rescue.
Read more...Gaius Publius: How to Think About the Paris Climate Talks
The Paris climate talks are destined to be too little, too late, and here is a framework for understanding why.
Read more...America to Working Class Whites: Drop Dead!
On the fallen status of lower-class whites, and the poor prospects for many of their betters.
Read more...Tom Ferguson: Who is Supporting Trump?
Our favorite curmudgeon, political scientist Tom Ferguson, appeared on Real News Network to tease some signal out of the considerable noise on Donald Trump.
Read more...From G20 to Labour20
Labour20 set forth important goals not just for labor but for the economy and broader society. But does organized labor have the credibility to promote these aims?
Read more...Mathew D. Rose: The Ordeal of Angela Merkel
A chronicle of Angela Merkel’s rise and a catalogue of recent political mistakes which are putting her chancellorship at risk.
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