Michael Hudson on Meet the Renegades
Michael Hudson gives a freewheeling interview on some favorite topics like rentier capitalism and why the Great Moderation wasn’t so great.
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TRIPS: The Story of How Intellectual Property Became Linked to Trade
Why intellectual property rights are a form of private tax, and how they are abusive when applied to IP developed out of public funding.
Read more...Inequality As Policy: Selective Trade Protectionism Favors Higher Earners
Policy choices have subjected manufacturing workers to global competition while shielding high-wage professionals.
Read more...Private Equity Consultant Hamilton Lane Trots Out New Excuse, “Evil Populists,” for Already-Flagging Private Equity Performance
Funny how it’s OK for defenders of the 0.1% like Hamilton Lane to blame class warfare on their soon-to-be-fallen standing, but not the 99%.
Read more...Dean Baker: Rigged – How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer
Dean Baker explains how market structure, which results from policy choices, legislation, and regulation, serve the rich first and foremost.
Read more...Bill Black: Debt Derangement Syndrome – Saving Our Grandkids from Wall Street
Debt scaremongering is baaack! Why Pete Peterson and his budget falsehoods are a danger to your and your grandkids’ financial health.
Read more...Rise of the Politics of Rage
Is rage the undercurrent of increasingly anti-globalist politics?
Read more...Ilargi: Ungovernability
“Ungovernability: or why the legitimacy crisis will only get worse.
Read more...The Return of the Repressed Critique of Rentiers – Veblen in the 21st Century
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Read more...The Evidence Is Clear: Population Growth and Prosperity Are NOT Linked
An in-depth analysis of why the assertion that more population growth promotes higher living standards is bunk.
Read more...Salvation Army Slams New Zealand’s Loose Immigration Policy for Hurting Local Workers
Immigration is a hot topic in the antipodes too, for much the same reason as in the US….the impact on jobs and wage rates.
Read more...Trump, Clinton, Obama and the TPP
How much-derided “populism” has revealed some ugly truths about the TPP, leading Clinton and Obama to try to reposition themselves.
Read more...How the Housing Bubble is Remaking Australia’s Class Structure
How the housing bubble is restructuring Australian society. Are the same patterns emerging in your country?
Read more...The Mainstream Media’s Phony War
How the mainstream media is still waging a Phony War for the elites — and why you need to donate to the Naked Capitalism fundraiser.
Read more...Social Democracy, the “Third Way,” and the Crisis of Europe, Part 3
A discussion of why the center-left failed to revive in Europe after the crisis. Some of the reasons apply to the US as well.
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