Life after Brexit: The UK’s Options Outside the EU
What are UK’s options if a majority votes in favour of Brexit this June?
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Bill Black: The Clintons Have Not Changed – The Clintonian War on the IG Watchdogs
Hillary Clinton refused to appoint even the weak watchdog of an Inspector General (IG) at the State Department.
Read more...The Implications of Brexit for the Rest of the EU
Brexit would leave the EU an even more impaired regional and geo-political player than now, when it already punches far below its economic weight.
Read more...Social Security Privatizer Larry Fink of Giant Asset Manager BlackRock is a Clinton Treasury Secretary in Waiting
Social Security enemy Larry Fink appears to have troublingly high odds of becoming the Clinton Treasury Secretary nominee.
Read more...The Modi Government and India’s Economy
Why is India experiencing so much political upheaval when it has one of the fastest growing economies in the world?
Read more...Merkel in Jeopardy: Germany’s European Hegemony, Refugees and Upcoming Elections
The inexorable political decline of Angela Merkel as well as her traditional opponents, the Social Democrats, is gathering pace.
Read more...Clinton Announces When She Will Disclose Her Healthcare Insurance Improvement Plan: She’ll Announce It Just as Soon as the Republican Presidential Candidates Tell Us Theirs
Clinton offers no details on her healthcare insurance scheme while her allies attack Sanders plan, often with easily debunked arguments.
Read more...Some Real Costs of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Nearly Half a Million Jobs Lost in the US Alone
The Trans-Pacific Partnership will lead to job losses overall, with the US taking the biggest hit.
Read more...Was Clintonomics Good for Working People?
Why Clintonomics does not live up to its PR.
Read more...John Helmer: FireEye – A Case Study in How the Financial Times Weaponizes Its Middle East Reporting
Why is the Financial Times running security threat claims from FireEye, an information technology company, that FireEye can’t substantiate?
Read more...James Galbraith: The Friedman v. Romers Growth Debate on the Sanders Plan – A Summing Up
How the real point of contention between Friedman and the Romers over the Sanders plan has been misconstrued.
Read more...Merkel Channels Varoufakis: “No Plan B,” in This Case, on Migrants
Is Angela Merkel’s “Plan B” remark a Freudian slip, a recognition that like Varoufakis, she’s alienated so many people that she can no longer cinch a deal?
Read more...Donald Trump’s Truly Absurd, Word Salad, Gibberish Health Care Policy
Trump’s health care plan, to the extent it can even be called a plan, makes no sense.
Read more...James Galbraith Describes Major Forecast Failure in Model Used by Romers to Attack Friedman on Sanders Plan
James Galbraith examines the used forecast by Christine Romer and David Romer to attack Gerald Friedman’s favorable review of Sanders’ plan. He’d already shellacked the methodology in a 2014 book.
Read more...Germany Lays the Foundations for a New Eurozone Debt/Banking Crisis
It’s astonishing to see Germany take active steps to wreck the Eurozone.
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