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.
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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.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Job Cuts Pile Up
An increase in job cuts announced suggests an employment turning point is nigh.
Read more...Climate Change Alert: Life Is About To Get Much Worse
Updated climate models indicate that temperatures and storms will be getting much worse in the next 10-20 years.
Read more...Brexit: This is What We Call a Muppet Show
An update on the Brexit referendum.
Read more...Wolf Richter: World Trade Collapses in Dollars, Languishes in Volume
A rout in world trade that started in June 2014 shows no sign of getting better.
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