Was Clintonomics Good for Working People?
Why Clintonomics does not live up to its PR.
Read more...Category Archives: Free markets and their discontents
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.
Read more...How Many Flints? America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis
Flint is just the tip of the iceberg of lead poisoning in America.
Read more...It’s Not Just TPP. Can a President Kill NAFTA? Al Gore Thought So. Hillary Clinton Too.
Given what Hillary and Gore have said about Nafta, it’s time to ask candidates much more pointed questions about Nafta and the TPP.
Read more...Positive Money in Action
Positive Money boosters have failed to consider (or perhaps have failed to publicize) is that it would necessitate draconian controls to prevent the creation of private credit.
Read more...Paul Craig Roberts on Michael Hudson’s Killing the Host
An introduction to Michael Hudson and his latest book.
Read more...New York Times’ Bank-Boosting, Neoliberal-Excusing Story of the Global Debt Hangover
A new story at the New York Times on the global debt overhang is an economically warped account that omits important policy options.
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