Michael Hudson gives a wide-ranging talk, including American policy in the post-war era, how economics ignores debt, and class warfare.
Read more...Some non-mainstream experts discuss inflation: what is driving it, how long it might persist, and what if anything the officialdom can do.
Read more...Jayapal is “letting the president” handle Manchin after he says he won’t budge on the reconciliation package.
Read more...Bob Pollin: High oil prices and supply chain disruption are driving inflation, not workers’ modest wage increases or government debt.
Read more...Consumers are getting so rattled that they have set off recession warning lights.
Read more...A perspective from the Global South on the end game for growth.
Read more...Class warfare, American style, is ever more obvious. But how much are ordinary people taking note?
Read more...Details on why Congress is addicted handing out military pork as opposed to spending money on citizens’ needs.
Read more...Repeat after me: trade deficits = exporting jobs. The latest results confirm how crappy US policies are.
Read more...The effort to get the House to rubber-stamp a $1.5 trillion Senate-dictated infrastructure bill has gone pear-shaped.
Read more...Michael Hudson discusses China’s campaign to limit the influence of Western investors.
Read more...A look at how Covid has damaged the economy and estimating the effect.
Read more...A wrongheaded paper from the Jackson Hole conference that depends on the loanble funds fallacy lets central bankers off the hook.
Read more...Marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Bretton Woods economic system.
Read more...Central banks in developing countries must use monetary policy to enhance fiscal space and support relief, recovery and transformation.
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