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The Vicious Cycle of Mass Incarceration and Racial Injustice
Jul 6, 2021
MIT economic historian Peter Temin discusses parts of his forthcoming book, focusing on the history of mass incarceration of uneducated Blacks and how it has created a permanent class of poor Black Americans
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Towards a theory of shadow money
Apr 14, 2016
Struggles over shadow money today echo 19th century struggles over bank deposits.
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From Long COVID Odds to Lost IQ Points: Ongoing Threats You Don’t Know About
May 31, 2024
Stuck in a fog of misleading narratives, most of us don’t see the true extent of COVID’s persisting—and intensifying—threats. INET’s Lynn Parramore talks to Dr. Phillip Alvelda about the dangers we’re missing and the failures of public health agencies to inform and protect us. *This is Part 1 of a two-part interview.
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How Cuba Became a Biopharma Juggernaut
Mar 5, 2018
Cuba’s entirely state-owned biopharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful, and can serve as a model for other nations
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What we learn about inequality from Carl Icahn’s $2 billion Apple “no brainer”
Jun 6, 2016
The company’s focus on stock buybacks to increase shareholder value is a reminder of why so much of the value created daily by millions of workers ends up in the hands of the billionaires
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How Climate Denial is Fueling a U.S. Homeowners Insurance Crisis and Risking a 2008-Style Financial Meltdown
Feb 13, 2025
New research reveals that rising insurance costs, reckless building, regulatory inaction, and big banks’ fossil fuel investments are driving a dangerous cycle that jeopardizes homeowners — and financial stability for everyone.
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As Goes Cyprus, So Goes the European Union
Mar 31, 2013
All of a sudden, tiny Cyprus is making headlines. How could such a small country, with an economy approximately the size of the State of Maranhao, create such big problems?
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Why Aren’t Libertarians Protesting the Freedom-Busting Texas Abortion Law?
Sep 8, 2021
On deregulation and Covid masks, libertarians are loud. On female liberty, deafening silence.
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Zero Interest Rates in EU: The Myth of the Poor German Saver
Feb 7, 2017
Panic over the impact on German savers of low interest rates and looming inflation neglects to mention that very few Germans are saving much
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Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma's Prices Won't Stifle Innovation—They Don't Use the Money to Innovate!
Mar 14, 2024
Industry lobbyists vehemently oppose Medicare drug price negotiations. However, physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk their arguments.
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Why Wages Are Stagnating in Latin America
Oct 19, 2018
William Lazonick has shown how the doctrine of “shareholder value” has hurt wages in the United States. But in Latin America, where family corporations dominate, the story is more complicated.
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Are banks firms?
Jun 11, 2011
New Thinking about Modigliani-Miller
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Coronavirus Means Zero Hour for the European Union
Mar 16, 2020
If the European Central Bank does not jump to the aid of peripheral countries weakened by the pandemic, the Eurozone could collapse.
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Musk and Tesla: Compensation or Control?
Jun 18, 2024
The $48 Billion Stock-Option Package and its Implications for the EV Transition
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Learning from MLK, the Inconvenient Hero
Apr 4, 2018
The vision of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years later, and the relevance of his economic ideas today