All the pundits keep asking where fascism suddenly appeared from in Spain. It never left. The same is true in Germany and Italy.
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Economics
Business Insider: The ‘supply-and-demand model of labor markets is fundamentally broken,’ and that’s why you’re not getting a pay raise anytime soon
Part-time “underemployment” has, statistically replaced the mass unemployment we remember from the 1980s. As Johnson says: “A majority of people who are classified as poor now live in a household where someone is in work. […]
Finance
Michael Roberts: Beware the ECB bearing gifts for Greeks
In 2012 the ECB purchased massive amounts of Greek bonds from German and French banks to save them from going under, they having recklessly purchased these bonds. Greece has continued to pay interest on these, […]
Economics
Dani Rodrik: Can Trade Agreements Be a Friend to Labor?
To date, labor clauses in trade agreements have remained a fig leaf, neither raising labor standards abroad nor protecting them at home. Real change would require a significantly different approach, including how trade agreements uphold […]
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