Bond, Treasury Bond: 007 is Out of Cash, but Your Government Can’t Be
So now even austerity is getting product placement in movies….
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Connecting American Foreign Policy to Economic Policy
Can American foreign policy be made to work better for US citizens (outside the arms industry) and the rest of the world?
Read more...Medical Educators Launch Trials of Increased Sleep Deprivation of Physician Trainees Apparently in Violation of the Nuremberg Code
In a likely violation of the Nuremberg Code, a study increased the sleep deprivation of medical residents above already-high current levels.
Read more...New Studies: Do ‘Competitive’ Corporate Tax Cuts Boost Growth?
A new study devastates the widely-touted claim that corporate tax cuts promote growth.
Read more...“Failed: What the ‘Experts’ Got Wrong about the Global Economy”
An excerpt from CEPR co-director Mark Weisbrot’s important new book, Failed.
Read more...From G20 to Labour20
Labour20 set forth important goals not just for labor but for the economy and broader society. But does organized labor have the credibility to promote these aims?
Read more...Japan Proves that “Fix Trade” Sales Pitch for TPP, TTIP, and TISA is Wrong
Funny how foreign firms have failed to break into Japan for reasons having nothing to do with regulatory barriers, which calls the logic of “trade” deals like the TPP into question.
Read more...The Disaster of Greek Austerity – What Next?
More on the ground readings on the impact of austerity in Greece.
Read more...Join Occupy the SEC in Urging the Congress to Oppose H.R. 4002 (“Criminal Code Improvement Act of 2015”)!
Support Occupy the SEC in opposing a bill that would give white collar criminals a new, improved “get out of jail free” card.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Bloodletting 8 Trading Days in a Row: Junk Bonds Go to Heck
Unnerving events in the junk bonds market.
Read more...Antitrust Incompetence from the FTC, as Albertson’s/Safeway Divestiture Goes Awry
Over the past several months, I’ve come to the conclusion that so many problems in our politics and our economy results from our tolerance of monopoly capitalism. I did a super-long story for The American Prospect laying this out, and how we need a revival of antitrust policy at the grassroots level. Here’s a depressing case study that suggests maybe we should just relieve one of the antitrust enforcement agencies, the Federal Trade Commission, of its duties.
Read more...Marshall Auerback and Branko Milanovic Discuss Income Inequality: The Global Haves And Have-Nots In The 21st Century
A conversation between Marshall Auerback and Branko Milanovic on income inequality and the potential countervailing forces to its rise.
Read more...To Fix Inequality and Steady the Economy, Think Radically
Originally published at the Institute for New Economic Thinking website Adair Turner, Chairman of the Board of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and former Chairman of Britain’s Financial Services Authority (2008-13), is the author of a new book that takes aim at economic and political orthodoxies, Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and […]
Read more...How Ireland Became an Offshore Financial Center
Offshore financial centres are a political and economic phenomenon that goes far beyond secrecy, and Ireland makes a remarkable case study.
Read more...How Pursuing “Competitiveness” Crushes Labor and Lowers Growth
Why pursuing national “competitiveness,” as in squeezing labor pay and rights, does not produce the promised benefit of more growth.
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