The Old Democrat Wall Street Plus Identity Politics Playbook is Dead
The Democrats need to reinvent themselves. Appeals to identity politics will not deliver enough votes.
Read more...Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents
Bill Black: Liberals Didn’t Listen – The Immense Cost of Ignoring Tom Frank’s Warnings
Why liberals (which do not forget is not the same as the left) reaped the whirlwind in the elections
Read more...Gaius Publius: TPP Is a Monopoly Protection Scheme, the Exact Opposite of a “Free Trade” Deal
Obama is determined to pass the TPP in the lame duck session, so yet another reminder of what this deal is really about.
Read more...Monetary Policy at the Time of Elections
How much was the Federal Reserve standing pat on interest rates linked to the election, and what can be expected for the future?
Read more...Did the Farm Credit System Change Americans’ Thinking About Credit?
How and why the farm credit system served as the first Federal experiment in using cheap credit as an economic and policy tool.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Come on Moody’s, Spare Us These Falsehoods: That $1.3 Trillion “Overseas Cash” Is Already in the US
Moody’s turns into tax lobbyist for its biggest corporate clients.
Read more...A Colorado Ballot Measure Could Make it Nearly Impossible to Ban Fracking
Green groups hope to amend the Colorado constitution so communities can ban fracking. An industry-sponsored amendment could block that.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Meet the Renegades
Michael Hudson gives a freewheeling interview on some favorite topics like rentier capitalism and why the Great Moderation wasn’t so great.
Read more...Whom to Trust: Why We Persistently Get It Wrong
Placing trust in the wrong person can be costly, yet most rely on their beliefs about cheating rather other means of protecting themselves.
Read more...Easy Money is Dangerous Without Activist Fiscal Policy
Why over-reliance on monetary policy and the failure to engage in fiscal deficits is a toxic mix.
Read more...Gauis Publius: TPP Has Picked Up a Powerful Enemy — Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter takes on Obama’s plan to pass the TPP in the lame duck session.
Read more...TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade
Why intellectual property rights are a form of private tax, and how they are abusive when applied to IP developed out of public funding.
Read more...Inequality As Policy: Selective Trade Protectionism Favors Higher Earners
Policy choices have subjected manufacturing workers to global competition while shielding high-wage professionals.
Read more...Why the ECB is Going to Print, Print, PRINT!
The ECB is set to dig its hole even deeper….
Read more...Nomi Prins: Hillary Clinton Will Continue the Big Bank Protection Racket
Hillary Clinton has apparently never met a well-heeled banker she didn’t like….
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