Mark Blyth and Wendy Schiller – Election 2016: What Happened and Why?
Mark Blyth gives yet another colorful, incisive, and spot on reading of politics, this time of the US election and the political outlook.
Read more...Category Archives: Politics
Public Support for the Euro
Why a Brexit, even if it moves forward, seems unlikely to lead to a Eurozone breakup.
Read more...Trump To Clear Way For Oil Pipelines
A Trump presidency is a big setback to environmentalists, particularly opponents of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.
Read more...Will Trump Be Rolled by the Republican Establishment?
If Trump is serious about policies like rebuilding infrastructure and reducing foreign conflicts, can he prevail over his party’s establishment?
Read more...The Old Democrat Wall Street Plus Identity Politics Playbook is Dead
The Democrats need to reinvent themselves. Appeals to identity politics will not deliver enough votes.
Read more...Voters Repudiate Clinton
Hillary Clinton is over.
Read more...Bill Black: Liberals Didn’t Listen – The Immense Cost of Ignoring Tom Frank’s Warnings
Why liberals (which do not forget is not the same as the left) reaped the whirlwind in the elections
Read more...Gaius Publius: TPP Is a Monopoly Protection Scheme, the Exact Opposite of a “Free Trade” Deal
Obama is determined to pass the TPP in the lame duck session, so yet another reminder of what this deal is really about.
Read more...2016 Election Night Live Blog/Open Thread
Most of the US will have to wait for polling stations to close – typically between 19:00 EST (00:00 GMT) and 20:00 EST (01:00 GMT) – for state projections.
Read more...Monetary Policy at the Time of Elections
How much was the Federal Reserve standing pat on interest rates linked to the election, and what can be expected for the future?
Read more...Liberalism Yet To Come: The Boundaries of the Thinkable
A ghost reaches his final conclusions about the true nature of modern progressivism, and wonders what to do next.
Read more...Judge Jed Rakoff Throws Down Gauntlet to Judges on Lack of Due Process in America
How the judicial system is failing ordinary Americans and why judges need to address this large and growing problem.
Read more...Did the Farm Credit System Change Americans’ Thinking About Credit?
How and why the farm credit system served as the first Federal experiment in using cheap credit as an economic and policy tool.
Read more...Be Sure to Join Our Election Night Live Blog/Open Thread Tomorrow Evening
Join the Naked Capitalism community for conversation and commiseration as election results come in!
Read more...The Obamamometer’s Toxic Legacy: The Rule of Lawlessness
Obama’s legal legacy: Those who voted for hope and change got change at the Department of Justice but not the change they were hoping for.
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