What Fed chair Powell said about rate hikes, no rate cuts, rate cuts, and the QT slowdown while getting rid of MBS entirely
Read more...Industrial policy, despite recent lip service, is out of favor because doing ambitious things isn’t lucrative enough for the right people.
Read more...New EU fiscal rules, touted as creating and economic growth, actually embody a dangerous agenda to shred social safety nets.
Read more...Varoufakis weighs in on topics of keen interest: the looting of Greece, then and now, the European left, and Palestine.
Read more...Looking at the economic impact of war on neighboring countries, including ones not part of the theater of conflict.
Read more...This column studies the rise and fall of paper money in 13-14th century China over three stages: full silver convertibility, nominal silver convertibility, and fiat standard.
Read more...Efforts are underway to discredit modern monetary theory in the UK.
Read more...Corporate greedflation is squeezing household budgets and distorting the economy. But is tacit support for it really a one-party affair?
Read more...Some concrete proposals for how to slip the yoke of neoliberalism and start building a fairer and more functional economy.
Read more...Central bankers fret about inflation, but the far more destructive deflation may become a treat.
Read more...The CBO and CMS, keep overestimating health cost increase, and at least for the CBO, it’s due to neoliberal fealty.
Read more...Presidential contenders ignore root causes threatening Social Security. Is it due to their reliance on wealthy donors?
Read more...Eric Laursen, author of The People’s Pension, explains the campaign of sneak attacks and misinformation against Social Security.
Read more...An in-depth yet lively debunking by Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson of Panglossian depictions of the state of the US economy and society.
Read more...How EU states are still trapped in their self-devised austerity hairshirt.
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