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

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Johnson: Elites Eying the Exits Signals America's Crisis

Jan 23, 2017

Institute President Rob Johnson interviewed by the New Yorker on hedge-fund managers and the market for air strips in New Zealand

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INET's Turner Warns Against 'Fantasy' of Stimulating Economies Through Financial Deregulation

Jan 5, 2017

There is no good case for major deregulation of the US financial sector, warns INET Board Chairman Adair Turner, and any backsliding by a Trump administration on banks’ capital requirements instituted globally after 2008 will be very dangerous

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Robots, Universal Basic Income, and the Welfare State

Jan 5, 2017

Evidence thus far questions the assumption that robotics are eliminating jobs. INET Senior Vice President for Programs Rick McGahey says the UBI debate should focus on the long-term weakening of labor’s bargaining power