Bill Black: Democrats Should Reject Bernanke’s ‘Wily E. Coyote’ Criticism of Trump’s Deficits
Bernanke engages in a new episode of ideologically motivated economic prognostication.
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The Italian Mini-BOT Debate
More discussion of how well a proposed Italian parallel currency, the mini-BOT, might work in practice.
Read more...Can Locally-Owned Stores Save RadioShack?
RadioShack stores are coming back from the dead, um, bankruptcy.
Read more...Who Says Labor Laws Are “Luxuries”?
The World Bank and IMF say developing economies can’t afford to have strong labor laws. Actually, they can’t afford not to.
Read more...Finally: SEC Frets about Share Buybacks, “Torrent of Corporate Trading Dominating the Market” and “Short-Term Financial Engineering”
Mirabile dictu, a Republican SEC commissioner criticizes stock buybacks….
Read more...Worksheet for the 2018 Midterms (How Big Does “The Wave” Have to Be?)
What the Democrats have to do to win their 23 seats and control the House, and California results.
Read more...The War Nerd: Anglo-American Media’s Complicity in Yemen’s Genocide
Yemen starves….and why the Western media looks the other way.
Read more...Last Exit to the Road Less Traveled
What good is a conventional economics that tells us we can only create jobs and “profit” by literally destroying and despoiling the resources we depend on? That sounds un-economic to me
Read more...Amy Chozick’s Chasing Hillary: A Scoop, a Missed Story, and Life in the 10%
The high points of Amy Chozick’s book on covering the 2016 Clinton campaign.
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Don’t Call It a Tax: Inside Washington’s Attempt to Pass a “Fee On Pollution”
After a decade of failed carbon taxes, Washington state is pushing to pass the country’s first “carbon fee.” Will this time be different?
Read more...Three Lessons the Labour Movement Must Learn From the Fight for 15 at Walmart
The Fight for 15 at Walmart was “surprisingly successful”. What tactics should labor organizers consider adopting?
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 6/8/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: G-7, trade strategy, Airbus, Sanders challenged, why executives run for office, wholesale trade, supply chain, McDonalds, KFC, vaping, Anthony Bourdain, algorithms, Coltrane
Read more...The Battle for Money Has Begun
Why the current fights over money, banking, and Modern Monetary Theory look like new ways to achieve bad neoliberal ends.
Read more...Worrying About the Deficit Is So 17th Century
Deficit hawks have been wrong for even longer than you thought.
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