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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Give the Democratic Trade Turncoats Hell Over Fast Track Vote
The real fight against Fast Track authorization will take place in the House. but the Senate sellouts should be made to feel the wrath of their constituents.
Read more...John Helmer: Polish President Komorowski’s Defeat is a Blow to the War with Russia Party,
First-round presidential election results show that the Poles have not been persuaded to vote for a candidate promising to go to war in the Ukraine or on the Russian border.
Read more...Federal Reserve Goes Silent About Our Freedom of Information Request on Greece
Not surprisingly, the central bank has gone mum about a Freedom of Information Act request we submitted over two months ago.
Read more...Fast Track Authority for Toxic Trade Deals Fails Key Vote in Senate
Democratic Senators delivered an embarrassing procedural defeat to Obama on Fast Track authority.
Read more...Sovereignty For International Investors (Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP))
Why the investor state dispute settlement panels in the Trans-Pacific Partnership are a Trojan horse for enriching multinationals and gutting national sovereignity.
Read more...Greece Authorizes €750 Million Payment to IMF Despite Failing to Get Concession Sought [Updated]
Today, Greece blinked. But one unconfirmed report suggests the government got some eyewash.
Read more...Greece Finally Threatens Default as Deal with Creditors Remains Remote
A Greek default looms, but what does that mean for Greece and its creditors?
Read more...Bill Black: The Economist Must Retract Its Racist Headline Immediately
The UK election results provoked the Economist to reveal its racist tendencies.
Read more...Gaius Publius: Sanders Raises $3 Million in Four Days; Will He Split the Party?
Why Bernie Sanders is a real contender, and how his campaign threatens Democratic party apparatchiks.
Read more...Resilience is The New Black
Why sustainability has failed and “resilience” is replacing it.
Read more...Greece Says It Will Make IMF Payment Next Week As Stalemate Continues
Greece may succeed in avoiding a default next week, but it remains at loggerheads with its creditors.
Read more...Nomi Prins: The Clintons and Their Banker Friends
A good overview of the Clintons’ deep ties to Wall Street kingmaker Robert Rubin and other members of the Goldman mafia.
Read more...Former Greenspan Fan Paul Krugman Now Calls Greenspan “Worst Fed Chairman Ever”
Why does Paul Krugman find it so difficult to admit to past error?
Read more...UK Elections Today: Unpredictable, But Depressingly Little Room Between the Parties on Austerity
By David Dayen, a lapsed blogger. Follow him on Twitter @ddayen While in this country somebody’s probably writing up an early analysis of the 2024 elections, for UK elections they do quick-strike campaigns only lasting a handful of weeks. And today voters cast their ballots in an election most observers agree will really get interesting […]
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