The Roots of Argentina’s Surprise Crisis
How reforms by Argentina’s President Macri helped kick off a currency crisis.
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Some Notes on North Korea
Trying to get past the groupthink on the North Korea summit.
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...Brexit: An 11th Hour Referendum Headfake to (Again) Blame the EU for the Goverment’s Failings?
Gaming out a Brexit scenario.
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...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...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.
Read more...Primaries Expose Bitter Fight in Democratic Party
The Democratic party continues to wage full scale war against progressives…..how’s that going?
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...OCC Covering Up for Wells Fargo Type Abuses at Other Banks
The OCC found lots of bad bank conduct in retail-land, but refuses to say anything about who is cheating and what they are up to.
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...More Brexit Insanity: Corbyn Proposes Dead-on-Arrival, Misbranded “Soft” Brexit; Auto Part Makers to Take Huge Hit; Irish Border Groundhog Daze
Brexit madness is only getting worse….
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...Trump After 500 Days: More Lifetime Federal Judges
The Trump administration has successfully seated a record number of lifetime federal judges, in part because his predecessor left so many positions pending.
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