Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
In a candid discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and deaths. *This is Part 2 of a two-part interview.
Bernanke and Blanchard’s Obsession with the Wage-Price Spiral
Bernanke and Blanchard have made another failed attempt to salvage establishment macroeconomics after the massive onslaught of adverse inflationary circumstances with which it could evidently not contend.
Europe's New Fiscal Rules Harm Working People and Women, Boost Right-Wing Radicals
Behind bogus promises of job creation and economic growth lies a dangerous agenda to shred social safety nets.
Inflation and Power
Monetary Policy, Illiquidity, and the Inflation Debates
The key issue is the regulation of the liquidity of all financial markets, and not just that of the banking system
Bagehot on Money: A Bridge Between Bankers and Economists?
Reinterpreting Bagehot’s mature work as the origin of the key currency tradition
Is American Banking Safe? You Might Not Like The Answer from Two Fed Veterans
Walker Todd and Bill Bergman expose the untold story of banking instability, regulatory battles, and the struggle to protect the public from financial chaos
Theories of Economic Crises
What the UAW and Everyone Else Need to Know About CEO Pay
What is GM CEO Mary Barra’s take-home pay? (It’s more than you are being told)
Everyone Versus Google: Will Big Tech Be Held Accountable?
The tech giant is in the hot seat, but it’s going to be a “big fight,” warns antitrust expert Mark Glick.
The Scourge of Corporate Financialization: Income Inequity, Employment Instability, Productive Fragility
Stock buybacks as a mode of predatory value extraction