The Bank of England is being readied to print, as in deficit spend, in the face of a hard or crash out Brexit.
Read more...How “financial repression,” as in negative real interest rates, whacked Italy and boosted Spain.
Read more...The election of a right-wing, populist government in Italy exposes the economic and democratic shortcomings of the European project and its nationalist rivals.
Read more...How reforms by Argentina’s President Macri helped kick off a currency crisis.
Read more...Bernanke engages in a new episode of ideologically motivated economic prognostication.
Read more...More discussion of how well a proposed Italian parallel currency, the mini-BOT, might work in practice.
Read more...Why the self-styled reformist government in Italy is already looking like a paper tiger.
Read more...Why the current fights over money, banking, and Modern Monetary Theory look like new ways to achieve bad neoliberal ends.
Read more...Deficit hawks have been wrong for even longer than you thought.
Read more...The mini-BOT has only been sketched out at a high level. How might it work and more important, would it succeed as a parallel currency?
Read more...Italy’s new government makes some opening moves.
Read more...Correcting some misunderstanding about proposed monetary reforms that are the subject of a referendum this weekend.
Read more...Taking stock of the opening moves in the confrontation between Italy’s upstarts and the European establishment.
Read more...Markets wail and gnash their teeth as normalization of Italian yields sets in.
Read more...How the media became the useful idiot of neoliberalism.
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