Category Archives: Guest Post
Sunrise Movement and AOC Push Pelosi for a Green New Deal, Highlighting Job Creation
Young climate change activists and AOC push Pelosi for a Green New Deal, despite expected hostility in the Senate.
Read more...An MMT View of “Twin Deficits”: Budget and Current Account Deficits
Why the worries about the US budget deficit and China buying Treasuries are overblown.
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IMF, Warren Sound Alarm on Leveraged Lending
Concerns are building over the extent of leveraged lending, among regulators and politicians and the private sector alike. Some, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren see troubling signs that recall risks that triggered the Great Financial Crisis.
Read more...IMF Pushes Neoliberal Policies in Latin America
The IMF is back again, flexing its muscle in Argentina and Mexico, pushing the neoliberal Washington Consensus, says Vijay Prashad in this Real News Network interview.
Read more...How Trump’s Game of Chicken With Iran Could Weaken the Dollar’s Role as the World’s Currency
Politicizing the SWIFT payments system is leading other nations to the search for alternatives to the dollar.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/16/2018
By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Readers, sorry for the “late” post. My habit is to set my clock a little ahead, as a lash and a spur to actually press the submit button by deadline, but the Mac’s latest OS seems to get huffy if my time is set “incorrectly,” and so I accidentally reset […]
Read more...When the Middle Class Lost Its Wealth
Until 2008, rising home values gave the middle class a cushion amid growing income inequality. But following the financial crisis, that wealth has failed to return.
Read more...Links 11/16/18
Everything You Thought You Knew About Western Civilization Is Wrong: A Review of Michael Hudson’s New Book, And Forgive Them Their Debts
Why debt unforgiveness is the original and incurable curse on our post-eighth-century-B.C. Western Civilization,
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 11/15/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Greens, Congressional Black Caucus, ME-02, suburban Democrats, fascism, retail sales, manufacturing, import and export, inventories, Amazon, Blue Apron, Uber, Goldman, Royal Bank of Scotland, PG&E, American music, asphalt
Read more...Is This Time Different? Examining Recent Emerging-Market Turbulence
Some emerging-market economies look wobbly. How likely are we to see more crises?
Read more...High Stakes, Entrenched Interests And The Trump Rollback Of Environmental Regulations
Trump’s “progress” in gutting environmental protections.
Read more...Apple’s “Capital Return Program”: Rewarding the Wrong People
nstead of rewarding the taxpayers and employees who actually create value for the tech giant, Apple is doling out massive stock buybacks
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