Gerald Friedman: Why “Liberal” Economists Dish Out Despair
“Liberal” economists still embrace the dominant pseudo-Keynesian orthodoxy despite its failure in the financial crisis and its role in increasing inequality.
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How European Union Fiscal Rules Subverted Democracy and Institutionalized Neoliberalism
A good overview of how fiscal rules gave neoliberal ideology and unaccountable bureaucrats the upper hand in the EU.
Read more...The Rise of the Right Wing Populist: Blame It on the Banks
Contrary to popular belief, the shift to the right is not due to immigration as much as the financial crisis and its aftermath.
Read more...Youth Unemployment in the Mediterranean Region and its Long-Term Implications
The data on European youth unemployment is sobering, and the migrant influx is making a bad situation worse.
Read more...America: No Country for Old People
It’s not easy being old and it’s only going to get harder in America.
Read more...How Bill Clinton’s Mass Incarceration Policies Fed Rising Higher Education Costs and Student Debt Burdens
The costs of Bill Clinton’s mass incarceration policies are even higher than you thought.
Read more...Bill Black: Hillary and Bill and Paul Krugman Race to the Right to Stop the Bern
Bill Clinton repeats urban legends to defend his crime bill, which Hillary advocated, that lead to the mass incarceration of blacks.
Read more...Bill Black: AEI Pushes Government Propaganda Telling Women to Marry Schlubs
Why exhorting poor people to marry more often is right wing propaganda in lieu of real policies to address poverty.
Read more...How the United States Became a Prisoner of War and Congress Went MIA
How Congress gave the President a blank check for never-ending war.
Read more...Paul Ryan Sorry for Calling Americans “Takers.” Let’s Talk About the Real Takers.
Rana Foroohar’s new book, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, addresses what Paul Ryan conveniently left out.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Rebellion Will Not Go Away
Rebellion watch: Why the natives will remain restless.
Read more...Campbell Brown: The New Leader of the Propaganda Arm of School Privatization
How a former anchor is helping the billionaire-backed charter lobby misrepresent school privatization as “reform”.
Read more...Thomas Frank: How Democrats Created Liberalism of the Rich
Make no mistake; the Democrats engineered the Third Way faux liberalism that sold out the working classes to benefit the rich and their minions.
Read more...The Global War on Drugs Has Unleashed an International Health Crisis, Says Top Health Panel
A study by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and The Lancet has effectively pronounced the war on drugs to be a failure.
Read more...How McKinsey Helped Turn Big Pharma into a Rent Extraction Business
How McKinsey contributed to the devolution of Big Pharma.
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