More and more economic studies find that inequality hurts growth. Adolph Reed discusses why politicians focus on divisive messaging rather than broad-based economic policies.
Read more...Contrary to the dominant media narrative, social issues like racism and sexism on their own can’t explain Trump’s success.
Read more...Some of the analytical sleights of hand used to promote the ideology of financializatation.
Read more...How a new paper on HAMP manages, by not understanding the program. to whitewash it as well as promote financialization.
Read more...Brexit news still looks decidedly uncheery.
Read more...Michael Hudson on his themes of how banks are mainly funding real estate rather than the economy and the problem of failing to write down debt that can’t be repaid.
Read more...China has more of a glass jaw than most economics commentators thought. But how is Trump’s trade war likely to progress?
Read more...Does capitalism breed pathology?
Read more...Is Trump serious about lowering drug prices in the US? And even if he is, how far might his plans get?
Read more...Why the European Copyright Directive would have a disastrous impact on the Internet, and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...The US and China are even more visibly at odds than usual.
Read more...Some surprising findings on why labor force participation of prime age men is flagging.
Read more...Amid hysterical comparisons between Senator Bernie Sanders and Mao Zedong, the Council of Economic Advisers unwittingly makes a solid case for socialist policies.
Read more...FICO is evil.
Read more...Grocery chains as yet another example of private equity looting, and what policymakers should do to stop that.
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