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Why did Corporate Democrats “cede” the economic argument? Are they really fighting inflation or trying to weaken workers’ bargaining power? INET’s Thomas Ferguson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.

In her new book, veteran Wall Street watcher and economist Nomi Prins warns that central bank strategies deployed since the financial crisis are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos.

The current energy market structures, including the short-run-marginal-price-on-all nature of the current wholesale market, are not fit for a transition to a renewables-dominated system.

Quels sont les problèmes à long terme qui doivent être résolus et quelles sont les solutions disponibles?

What are the long-term problems that need to be addressed and what solutions are out there?

Economic issues are a primary part of Trump’s appeal to his base

Why to Be Wary of Another Volcker-Type Monetary Tightening

The debilitating challenges women face in being heard are detrimental to economic prosperity and to democracy itself.

Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are taking advantage of inflation worries to jack up prices far beyond their cost increases, all the while raking in robber-baron profits.

Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort

In the papers of economist Charles Kindleberger, Perry Mehrling found notes on the paper that won Ben Bernanke his Nobel Prize.

How do we regulate an information utility?

In a new book, Alligators in the Arctic and How To Avoid Them, Peter Dorman shows how flawed academic models, faulty assumptions and unrealistic schemes grossly underestimate what’s needed to stop catastrophic warming. He argues for a straightforward carbon emission budget – plus the active citizenship required to fight big businesses that want to keep doing business as usual. Lynn Parramore explores his findings and talks to the economist about the path forward.

Servaas Storm’s commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act

Thomas Ferguson’s commentary for an INET symposium on the Inflation Reduction Act