Will Clinton Attempt to Bring Sanders Supporters into the Democratic Fold?
“Sanders will be ignored and shunned.” Will be? This has been the game from the outset.
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Michael Hudson: The Wall Street Economy is Draining the Real Economy
How Wall Street is interjecting itself into the economy so that more and more is diverted to pay interest, insurance and rent.
Read more...Star Trek or The Matrix? Varoufakis’s Challenge to Neoliberalism
Varoufakis gave a wide-ranging talk on the considerable conflict between neoliberalism and democracy, and why democratic rule produces better results.
Read more...Watch Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, and Phil Gramm Have a Love Fest Over Repeal of Glass Steagall
Watch Bill Clinton heart financiers in 1998 and try to take it back in 2013.
Read more...How Bill Gates and His Billionaire Allies Used Their Wealth to Launch Charter Schools in Washington State
The Gates charter school push as a case study in the Trojan Horse of “charitable plutocracy”.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: Donald Trump – Campaigning on America’s Decline
Trump’s campaign is proof of America’s decline….but not in the way you think.
Read more...Gaius Publius: A Look Ahead – Coming to the Philadelphia Crossroad
What happens to the credibility of the Democrats as a party if Sanders makes it past the Philadelphia crossroad?
Read more...Sanders Constituency Will Shape U.S. Politics for the Next Decade
Will the Sanders campaign spark fundamental change?
Read more...Gaius Publius: Hillary Clinton Won New York, But Her Image Is Underwater
The implications of Clinton’s rising unfavorable ratings.
Read more...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.
Read more...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...Bill Black: Adam Davidson, the 1%’s Lord Haw-Haw, Mangles Economic Theory to Attack Sanders
Adam Davidson makes numerous misrepresentations about economics in a salvo against Bernie Sanders’ economic plans. Does he really not know better, or has he really drunk the orthodox Kool-Aid?
Read more...Credentialism and Corruption: Neoliberalism as Lived Experience
How do these people live with themselves.
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...Bill Black: “Liberal” Economists Cheered the New Democrats’ Deregulation of Finance
A case study illustrating how soi-disant liberal economists pushed the US to the right during the Clinton Administration.
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