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...Andrew Ross Sorkin yet again misinforms readers, to the benefit of Big Finance.
Read more...The data on European youth unemployment is sobering, and the migrant influx is making a bad situation worse.
Read more...It’s not easy being old and it’s only going to get harder in America.
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...Independents are key to winning the general election, particularly for the Democrats, And they are not moderate Republicans; they are now pretty radical.
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...Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...Black shreds Krugman’s latest attack on Sanders.
Read more...A quick look at Breder Suasso, a New Zealand FSP with historic links to disreputable Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca
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...Former SEC official Andrew Bowden, who resigned over looking too cozy with the SEC, is now general counsel at a firm in Warren’s crosshairs.
Read more...Rana Foroohar’s new book, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, addresses what Paul Ryan conveniently left out.
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