Austerity
Thomas Fazi: Mario Draghi is running away from the mess he created
The technocrat prime minister’s resignation is hard to stomach Read Here
Inequality
Economics
Seth Schindler, Ilias Alami, Nick Jepson: Who’s in control? Wall Street Consensus, state capitalism, and spatialised industrial policy
The apparent contradiction between the Wall Street Consensus and contemporary state capitalism Read Here
Economics
Zack Exley, Robert Hockett: Inflicting pain on workers to fix inflation isn’t just unfair. It’s stupid, ineffective, and completely unnecessary
Just last year, economists and policy-makers were still debating whether inflation was worth worrying about. Some argued that it would be a transitory phenomenon with little real impact on working Americans. Others suggested that things […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Federal Reserve Bank researchers openly acknowledge the inevitability of recession
The Federal Reserve sees a recession and higher unemployment as the solution to inflation Read Here Photo: Dan Smith licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic
Economics
Michael Hudson – From Junk Economics to a False View of History: Where Western Civilization Took a Wrong Turn
The path to pro-creditor oligarchies Michael Hudson is the author of Killing the Host (published in e-format by CounterPunch Books and in print by Islet). His new book is J is For Junk Economics. He can be reached […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: First signs of a slowdown in the US labour market
The justification by the US Federal Reserve for pushing up interest rates to quell wages pressure does not stack up with the evidence. Read Here
Austerity
Peter Ramsay – Johnson’s Populist Evasion
The weakness of Boris Johnson’s government and of his political personality was the necessary consequence of a contradiction at the heart of the politics of Brexit. Peter Ramsay is Professor of Law at the London […]
Climate Crisis
Richard D. Wolff: The Case for Degrowth
Scale down forms of production that are organized around corporate profits and focus the economy instead on human well-being.
Inequality
Audrey Latura and Ana Catalano Weeks – How corporate board quotas influence gender equality policies within companies
Gender quotas can increase the representation of women on corporate boards, but do they also encourage broader attitude shifts within a company? Audrey Latura is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard […]
Austerity
Macro n Cheese: The End of Dollar Diplomacy? with Steve Keen and Michael Hudson
Listen Here In one of the most exciting pairings we’ve had on this podcast, Michael Hudson and Steve Keen join Steve Grumbine to talk about geopolitics, international production and trade, the climate crisis, and a […]