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Recovery Denied
Growth and prosperity continue to go their separate ways.
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Larry Summers Should Keep His Mouth Shut
Larry Summers is well on his way to rehabilitating his public image as a brilliant intellectual.
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A Modern-Day Debtors’ Prison? Judges Push Back Against the South’s Privatization Wave
In Southern states, small-town courts have outsourced probation management to for-profit companies.
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Our Economy Wants You to Be in Debt: Five Things You Can Do to Take Charge
We pored through a debt-resistance manual created by former Occupiers to bring you these practical tips.
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How the International Monetary Conference Helped Fuel the 1980s Debt Crisis
The 1980 IMC meeting seemed to bear formal fruition when Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency in January of 1981, as his new economic policies won "praise from at least …
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Sarah Jaffe | Post-Occupied
Is "Occupy" over? Or are its many offshoots learning the arts of community rootedness and power building?
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In Greece, Austerity Kills
The austerity policies imposed by Greece's government since the beginning of the financial crises have literally killed people, with health outcomes by all measures significantly worse since 2007.
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The New York Times Turns Paul Krugman Into His Opposite
By hosting columnists like Paul Krugman, the New York Times has helped to inform millions of readers on how the economy works. However its writers and editors are subject …
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Levy Economics Institute President Dissects the Myth of the Greek “Success Story“
In this interview, Bard College's Levy Economics Institute President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou evaluates the impact of the Troika's austerity policies in Greece since their imposition in 2010.
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Henry A. Giroux: Neoliberalism, Democracy and the University as a Public Sphere
Public Intellectual Henry Giroux speaks with Truthout about his new book and its exploration of how neoliberalism forces students into an intellectual and moral dead zone devoid of imagination.