Martin Wolf Defends Central Banks’ Negative Interest Rate Policies
The Financial Times’ lead economics writer, Martin Wolf, makes an intellectually bogus case for negative interest policies.
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Gaius Publius: A Look Ahead: Neither Party Can Win Without Winning Independents
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...Ireland: a Recovery Built on Sand
How official statistics exaggerate Ireland’s performance, largely due to its status as a tax haven/offshore financial center.
Read more...A New Stability and Growth Pact? Let’s Drop the Technocratic Veil!
On how economic growth models constrain policy debates and choices among Eurocrats, and why that is no accident.
Read more...#panamapapers – Why Critic Craig Murray Needs the Scorecard Before He Can Name The Players
Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...Bill Black: Krugman on the Corruption of Our Nation via Perverse Incentives
Black shreds Krugman’s latest attack on Sanders.
Read more...New Zealand’s FMA, the Breder Suasso Conundrum, Mossack Fonseca, and #panamapapers
A quick look at Breder Suasso, a New Zealand FSP with historic links to disreputable Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca
Read more...Leaked Memo Reveals IMF (Still) Wants Out of Greece Bailout and Plots to Pressure Germany to Act
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...A Firm Elizabeth Warren Wants Examined for Statements on Fiduciary Duty Reform is Where the SEC’s Tainted Former Exam Chief, Andrew Bowden, Landed as General Counsel
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...Paul Ryan Sorry for Calling Americans “Takers.” Let’s Talk About the Real Takers.
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.
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts and the Unaoil Scandal: More Chickens Coming Home to Roost, and They’re Big
First a political fracas in Malta, now a giant international bribery scandal: New Zealand Foreign Trusts cover themselves in more glory
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Rebellion Will Not Go Away
Rebellion watch: Why the natives will remain restless.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: Donald Trump Understands the Nexus Between Trade and Immigration
By linking immigration and trade, however crudely, Trump has exposed the broader paradox and inherent contradictions which lurk between the two.
Read more...Campbell Brown: The New Leader of the Propaganda Arm of School Privatization
How a former anchor is helping the billionaire-backed charter lobby misrepresent school privatization as “reform”.
Read more...Thomas Frank: How Democrats Created Liberalism of the Rich
Make no mistake; the Democrats engineered the Third Way faux liberalism that sold out the working classes to benefit the rich and their minions.
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