Are The IMF and the EU at Loggerheads Over Greece?
An overview of the history of the economic dispute between the IMF and the Eurozone creditors over Greece, and what that means for the ongoing negotiations.
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Thomas Palley: Fraternity of Failure – The Alternative, as in Hillary Clinton, Version
Hillary Clinton does not want to talk about past economic controversies.
Read more...IMF Paper Finds That Too Much Finance is Bad for Growth
A new IMF paper strikes another blow against the idea that Big Finance is good for you.
Read more...Gaius Publius: If Fast Track Passes, Anything Attached to a “Trade” Treaty Will Pass
How the Administration’s Fast Track authority would transfer more power to the President by limiting Congressional authority on “trade” bills.
Read more...John Helmer: How Angela Merkel Has Been Abandoned By John Kerry, Victoria Nuland, And Vladimir Putin
How Merkel was sidelined in negotiations over Ukraine.
Read more...European Commission Tables Proposal on Greece to Break Logjam [Updated: EC Issues Denial]
More fog of reporting….did the European Commission lodge a proposal to break the Greek negotiating logjam? If so, it’s backpedaling at high speed.
Read more...A Typology of Corruption for Campaign 2016 and Beyond
The Clinton and Bush campaigns compared and contrasted for their approaches to corruption, using Zephyr Teachouts analytical approach, with asides on Walker, Rubio, and Cruz.
Read more...Greece Cornered as IMF and ECB Refuse to Relent
A flurry of stories this weekend confirms that Greece and its creditors remain hopelessly at odds. The inertial path is to a Greek default
Read more...Bill Black: Krugman is Half Right
Paul Krugman’s latest column fingers some valid targets but lets way too many other equally deserving ones off.
Read more...Will the TransPacific Partnership Agreement Go into the Deep Freeze?
The TransPacific Partnership is far from a done deal,. Delay in securing Congressional approval for Fast Track has high odds of throwing a fatal wrench in the overseas timing.
Read more...Bill Black: New Labour Leaders Want to Go Back to Blair’s Policies That Blew Up the UK
How Tony Blair sold deregulation, and why his bad prescription is so hard to kill.
Read more...“Why Syriza Will Blink”
Anatole Kaletsky has a cognent, forcefully argued new article at the Project Syndicate website, Why Syriza Will Blink, which independently comes to the conclusion we’ve reached, that the winning strategy for the creditors is to keep Greece in the sweatbox and use worsening economic and social conditions in Greece to crush domestic support for Syriza. Kaletsky goes further than we have, arguing that this is the course the Troika is taking, and the new coalition should have anticipated this as a likely strategy, since it’s the same one they used successfully against Cyprus two years ago.
Read more...William J. Astore: The American Military Uncontained, Chaos Spread, Casualties Inflicted, Missions Unaccomplished
An important, sobering description of how US military overreach became institutionalized.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren’s Trade Deal Fears Confirmed: Canada Uses NAFTA to Challenge Volcker Rule
Elizabeth Warren’s concerns about trade deals undermining financial regulations get an unexpected confirmation from Canada.
Read more...Is the Push for Greater European Integration a Mistake?
The assumption among policy elites that more European integration will heal the union’s ills may be misguided.
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