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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Why is Getting Old So Hard and Expensive in America? New Book Challenges How We Think.

Jul 18, 2023

In The Measure of Our Age, elder justice expert M.T. Connolly, who served as coordinator of the Department of Justice’s Elder Justice Initiative, offers both a warning and challenge: the systems we rely on to protect us as we age haven’t caught up to our longevity. Good news: we have the tools to build better ones.

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How This Regional Bank Mortgage Lender Crisis is Different

Jun 12, 2023

Every banking crisis has its own overarching narratives and coincidental streams of various sub-narratives that course through the marketplace day to day.

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Private Equity is Out of Control and Looting America. This Prosecutor Says We Can Fix It.

May 2, 2023

In his new book, “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan To Pillage America,” Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, outlines the dangers of a trillion-dollar industry that hardly anyone understands. He explains how Americans can fight their harmful practices.

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The Post-Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?

Jan 26, 2023

Possible repercussions of economic crisis on the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility