Why the Oregon Refuge Occupiers Had a Legitimate Grievance…..Just Not the One They Went After
Small ranchers are being squeezed and the Oregon refuge occupiers had real grievances, but the wrong target.
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Galbraith: Attack on Sanders’ Economic Plan By Former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisors Irresponsible
Jamie Galbraith discusses in some detail why Gerald Friedman, a Clinton supporter who gave a favorable review of Sanders’ economic plan, is owed an apology by his detractors.
Read more...Social Security Privatizer Larry Fink of Giant Asset Manager BlackRock is a Clinton Treasury Secretary in Waiting
Social Security enemy Larry Fink appears to have troublingly high odds of becoming the Clinton Treasury Secretary nominee.
Read more...National Poll Finds Bipartisan Suport for Serious Regulation of Charter Schools
The public is dissatisfied with charter schools and wants curbs put on them.
Read more...Some Real Costs of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Nearly Half a Million Jobs Lost in the US Alone
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will lead to job losses overall, with the US taking the biggest hit.
Read more...Was Clintonomics Good for Working People?
Why Clintonomics does not live up to its PR.
Read more...Merkel Channels Varoufakis: “No Plan B,” in This Case, on Migrants
Is Angela Merkel’s “Plan B” remark a Freudian slip, a recognition that like Varoufakis, she’s alienated so many people that she can no longer cinch a deal?
Read more...The Ogre & the Cog: A Tale of Modern Misallocation
The tale of the ogre and the cog endeavors to explain why modern capitalist machinery isn’t working the way it is supposed to. The open question is whether this is inevitable.
Read more...The UK’s Money Laundering Mess (III): LLPs, Secrecy Jurisdictions, PSCs, and a Forthcoming Fiasco
Why the UK’s latest anti money laundering measures don’t look very convincing
Read more...The ECB’s Original Sin and Franco Modigliani’s Long View
Franco Modigliani foresaw how the ECB and the Eurozone architecture had an anti-growth bias and proposed remedies that were ignored.
Read more...Did Money Evolve? You Might (Not) Be Surprised
A short history of money, and what that tells you about it.
Read more...Michael Hudson Discusses the Federal Reserve and the Global Fracture
Explaining how the Federal Reserve and central bank policies like QE, saved the banks at the expense of wrecking the real economy.
Read more...A Modest Proposal for an Efficient Rental Market
How to make the housing market conform to mainstream economists’ ideals.
Read more...For First Time In Years, Labor Resistance Is on the Rise in America
Is the rise in labor unrest in 2015 a harbinger or mere noise in the data?
Read more...Dean Baker Exposes How CBO Cooks Inflation Forecasts to Promote Deficit Scaremongering
Yet more funny forecasts from the CBO telling you why you can’t have nice things, like a better job market.
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