Truthout
Economy
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Economists Unleash a Reign of Error
Paul Krugman: The Great Recession has brought us back into a world of persistent inadequate demand that has unleashed a sort of reign of error among anti-Keynesian economists and …
How America Became a Third World Country
America is investing in war in distant lands as it crumbles here at home.
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Why Inequality Is a Problem and Growth a Red Herring
Salvatore Babones: To the inequality and growth debate, I say - who cares!
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Chris Hedges: We, the Vast Underclass, Must Rise Up Against Global Mafia – or Die
It's time to build radical mass movements that defy all formal centers of power and make concessions to none.
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Austerity Is Dead; Stop Pushing It, Drop the Chained CPI and Increase Social Security
The ‘savings’ figures thrown around in Washington are not real ... but the pain these cuts will cause is very, very real.
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Could We Redirect Tax Subsidies to Pay for Free College?
Want a way to pay for free higher education? Take a look at all the tax breaks that ease the burden of student debt.
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Despite Sequester, High-Level Federal Executives Slated to Get Bonuses
The Senior Executive Service received more than $340 million in bonuses from 2008 through 2011.
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Discipline and Punish: The New Unemployment “Reform“
The Clinton-era arguments used to end welfare have been turned on the unemployed twenty years later.
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When Basic Economic Theory Is Ignored, Disaster Will Follow
Paul Krugman: The clean little secret of the global economic crisis is that standard economic theory actually performed pretty well.
Systemic Malfunctioning of the Labor and Financial Markets
Dr. Heiner Flassbeck: Government has to step in and correct the imbalances of low wages and unregulated financial markets or a deeper recession and crisis is inevitable.