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MMT Scholars’ Predictive and Policy Successes – Part A
Bill Black highlights how prominent economists apply double standards with respect to MMT.
Read more...What Oklahoma’s Opioid Settlement Means for Other States, Cities and Counties Suing Purdue Pharma
Purdue Pharma has threatened to file bankruptcy in response to the tsunami of opioid-related litigation filed against it . That would throw a major spanner in the works.
Read more...Bank Regulation Can’t Be Heads Banks Win, Tails Taxpayers Lose
At a G20 preparatory meeting, an INET panel analyzed how governments can prevent banks from exploiting taxpayer-funded bailout guarantees. The panelists didn’t mince words.
Read more...Brexit: Mayday
More Brexit stumlbing about as the EU sounds alarms.
Read more...Poll: Michelle Obama Would Be Frontrunner in 2020 If She Ran
Will Michelle Obama make the Obamas offiically yet another political dynasty?
Read more...Brexit: Chaos Continues as Parliament Votes Down All Brexit Options, Press Focuses on May Rather than April
The Brexit noise to signal ratio continues to be very high.
Read more...Could Middle East Policy Be Sanders’ Biggest Strength Against Trump for 2020?
Sanders is calling for major changes in US policy in the Middle East, and oddly isn’t getting much credit for that.
Read more...A Must Read: Why Does Everyone Hate MMT?
A respone to the backlash against MMT.
Read more...To Brexit or Not to Brexit
Yet more Brexit to-ing and fro-ing.
Read more...Rule of Law, American Style: John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court
America’s messy relationship with the International Criminal Court is in a particularly rocky phase. Of course, being exceptional means never having to admit citizens may have committed war crimes.
Read more...Trump Administration And Democrats Return Health Law To Political Center Stage
Trump is now seeking to gut the ACA in its entirety. How might the battle over health care play out?
Read more...Brexit: Controlled Flight into Terrain
In case you wondered, Brexit didn’t get any saner over the weekend.
Read more...Matt Taibbi: It’s Official – Russiagate is This Generation’s WMD
The Iraq war faceplant damaged the reputation of the press. Russiagate just destroyed it.
Read more...Taxcast: Mainstream Media Misrepresentations of the Financial Crash
This month’s Taxcast discusses misleading reporting from the mainstream media on the financial crisis: it was overloaded with finance ‘experts’, fed us all sorts of misunderstandings about the financial crash, sold us the austerity narrative, and omitted alternative solutions.
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