Adam Davidson makes numerous misrepresentations about economics in a salvo against Bernie Sanders’ economic plans. Does he really not know better, or has he really drunk the orthodox Kool-Aid?
Read more...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...Struggles over shadow money today echo 19th century struggles over bank deposits.
Read more...The data on European youth unemployment is sobering, and the migrant influx is making a bad situation worse.
Read more...Seeking reader reactions to last night’s Sanders/Clinton debate.
Read more...With friends like Merkel’s, who needs enemies?
Read more...A case study illustrating how soi-disant liberal economists pushed the US to the right during the Clinton Administration.
Read more...The Financial Times’ lead economics writer, Martin Wolf, makes an intellectually bogus case for negative interest policies.
Read more...Yves here. I’m leery of reinforcing the “competitiveness” meme, since it’s based on the false premise that all countries can be exporters. But this article nevertheless makes important observations about Eurozone structural flaws.
Read more...The Fed is suddenly looking very nervous, and by contrast, the Europeans don’t seem anywhere nervous enough on the banking front.
Read more...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...How official statistics exaggerate Ireland’s performance, largely due to its status as a tax haven/offshore financial center.
Read more...On how economic growth models constrain policy debates and choices among Eurocrats, and why that is no accident.
Read more...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...Explanations of the oil price decline are starting to acknowledge deflationary factors, even though the “d” word seems to be outside the pale .
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