Desperation Hidden in Plain Sight: Coastal Edition
Reports of desperation from what some might consider unlikely quarters: the Pacific Northwest.
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Another Great Depression or Tax Justice and Transparency? The Tax Justice Network January 2020 Podcast
TaxCast ranges well beyond tax today, with topics including IMF warnings, the Brexit rogue UK vision, and looting in Angola.
Read more...STATEMENT: House Budget Committee, “Reexamining the economic costs of debt”, Nov 20, 2019
It is hard to imagine a scenario in which rising deficits and the debt ratio will create a financial crisis, lead to government insolvency, generate high inflation, or trigger an attack by bond vigilantes.
Read more...Precarity: A Political Problem
‘Free market’ advocates claim that the rise of precarity was inevitable, as opposed to the result of political decisions.
Read more...The Lords and Ladies of Discipline: An Interview with Matt Stoller
Matt Stoller explains how economics reinforces established power relations.
Read more...Brexit: Digging In
Brexit again gets ugly.
Read more...Integrating Black and White American Economic History
The interplay of black and white economic history: slaves, freedmen, Jim Crow laws and the Great Migration.
Read more...Will Italy’s ‘Sardines’ Be Effective in the Upcoming Regional Election?
Will the populist Sardines shake up the Italian fake left, or will they just be a flash (mob) in the pan?
Read more...Conservative Win in Britain Means More Than Economic Trouble Ahead
In an uncertain economic context, the Conservative election win means a loss for health and the environment.
Read more...US Still at Risk of Iran Retaliation on Oil and Other Fronts
Why the US is vulnerable to Iran disrupting Middle East energy supplies or targeting critical non-oil infrastructure.
Read more...Debt Has Not Been Caused by Low Interest Rates, but Higher Rates Would Topple the Whole World Economy
Yet more official hand-wringing about interest rates…when they aren’t the core economic problem.
Read more...Why US Hostility Towards Chinese Tech Groups Feels Like Déjà Vu
US reactions to Chinese competitive threats are an awful lot like the ones to Japan of the 1980s, but the US now has a lot less leverage.
Read more...What Is Next for Venezuela?
The standoff in Venezuela has reached a worrying juncture, with negotiations falling apart, side deals emerging and regional states rolling out new sanctions on Caracas.
Read more...Manufacturing Employment, New Orders & Production Fall Fastest Since Apr-Aug 2009
Yves here. As readers know well, on the one hand, services and not manufacturing dominate the US economy. But manufacturing jobs, even now, are relatively well paid and manufacturing growth is often seen as having spillover effects. By Wolf Richter, editor at Wolf Street. Originally published at Wolf Street US manufacturing took a turn from […]
Read more...A Theory or Two of These Grim Times
A theory about why things are a mess.
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