Italy Holds A Mirror to a Broken Europe
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...Category Archives: Macroeconomic policy
The Roots of Argentina’s Surprise Crisis
How reforms by Argentina’s President Macri helped kick off a currency crisis.
Read more...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.
Read more...The Italian Mini-BOT Debate
More discussion of how well a proposed Italian parallel currency, the mini-BOT, might work in practice.
Read more...Italy Bars Landing of Ship With 629 Migrants as Finance Minister Takes Euro Exit, Parallel Currency Off Table
Why the self-styled reformist government in Italy is already looking like a paper tiger.
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.
Read more...A Hard Look at the Mini-BOT, the Parallel Currency Idea of Italy’s New Ruling Coalition
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 Prime Minister Conte Says Euro Exit Off the Table, But Mr. Market Pouts About Spending Talk
Italy’s new government makes some opening moves.
Read more...Richard Murphy: Why the Swiss Referendum Proposal of Giving the Central Bank Complete Credit Control is Dangerous Folly
Correcting some misunderstanding about proposed monetary reforms that are the subject of a referendum this weekend.
Read more...Did Italy’s 5 Star-Lega Coalition Blink in Its First Standoff With Eurocrats and Banksters?
Taking stock of the opening moves in the confrontation between Italy’s upstarts and the European establishment.
Read more...NIRP’s Revenge: Italian Bonds Plunge, Worst Day in Decades
Markets wail and gnash their teeth as normalization of Italian yields sets in.
Read more...How Media Amnesia Has Trapped Us in a Neoliberal Groundhog Day
How the media became the useful idiot of neoliberalism.
Read more...Italy’s Political Crisis….How Ugly Might It Get?
Identifying issues that may influence how Italy’s political crisis over the rejection of a Lega Nord-5 Star economy minister plays out.
Read more...Lib-Pop Politics: Italy’s New Government Is More Neoliberal Than Populist
Italy’s much ballyhooed populism is looking a lot like a sellout.
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