Lack of Hope in America: The High Costs of Being Poor in a Rich Land
Tying the loss of economic mobility to the loss of hope and personal despair.
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Food, the UK and Brexit: An Even Messier Reprise of Corn Laws Politics?
Surprisingly, or maybe not so, food is emerging as a flash point in Brexit politics.
Read more...Trilemmas and Financial Instability
Examining national policy tradeoffs in a world of perhaps too much in the way of free and easy international money movements.
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and Labor
TiSA’s effect on professional service and contract labor.
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), Scheduling, and “Standstill” and “Ratchet” Clauses
How TiSA could prevent the delivery of possible universal concrete material benefits, like Medicare for All
Read more...Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant?
Measured GDP and gains in human welfare eventually may become entirely divorced.
Read more...The Minefield of Historical Communism
What does the experience of historical communism imply about modern politics and about possibilities in the future?
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and Its Expansive Definition of “Services”
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. In this post, I continue what is starting to feel to me like a Lewis and Clark expedition through the unexplored territory of “trade” “deals”[1], having engaged New Zealand activist Jane Kelsey, who authored the new report TiSA: Foul Play (PDF) as my guide. Because I’m feeling my way into […]
Read more...Sleeping Monster: The Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and the Supply Chain
The extraordinary ambitions of TiSA (the Trade in Services Agreement)
Read more...The US Retail Crisis
America is undergoing a retail sector crisis, partly related to the increase of competition from online commerce. We review this debate.
Read more...Hamburgdämmerung: The End of G20 as a “Premier Forum for International Economic Cooperation”?
At G20, many key economic issues receive very little attention, unlike many other issues outside its traditional mandate
Read more...National Audit Office Warns of Brexit Customs IT Train Wreck….Nine Months After Naked Capitalism
Yet another big Brexit disaster in the making.
Read more...Single Market Maze Contains Clues to Complex Brexit Puzzle
Brexit boosters have sidestepped the issue of reconstituting trading arrangements, a major lapse.
Read more...More Brexit Backpedaling, UK May Relent on ECJ Red Line for “Transition Period”
Yet more Brexit bad news just before Theresa May is set to present her Great Repeal Bill.
Read more...US Senate Strikes for Russian Equality – The Oligarchs Targeted in New Sanctions Bill
Parsing the details and the logic of the Senate sanctions against Russia and in particular, its oligarchs.
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