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After the European Elections: Fiscal Policy is the Elephant in the Room
Jun 27, 2024
The most crucial issue in European policy, and one on which no big party campaigned and no important public discussion took place, was the fiscal policy stance for the next few years.
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Oil and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s: A Reanalysis
Jun 25, 2024
An excerpt from Revolt of the Rich: How the Politics of the 1970s Widened America’s Class Divide by David N. Gibbs, published by Columbia University Press (2024)
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The Fed’s “Chicken Run”: Why Sticking with High Rates Will Crash the Economy
Jun 24, 2024
In persisting with its high rates policy, the Fed is acting like James Dean in the famous “chicken run” auto race in Rebel Without a Cause.
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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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“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
Jun 13, 2024
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.
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Antitrust Policy and Artificial Intelligence: Some Neglected Issues
Jun 10, 2024
An ensemble of mechanisms enables cloud hegemons (Microsoft, Google, Amazon) to plan the whole AI knowledge and innovation network by weaponizing interdependence in networks.
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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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The Second Coming? Trump vs. Biden
May 17, 2024
How have the macroeconomic problems in the US blinded many participants and observers to the actual state of the American economy as the election approaches?
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The Long Goodbye? Mitch McConnell and Big Money Politics
May 16, 2024
In a political system whose primary currency is not the vote but the dollar, McConnell’s role as leader has plainly been well-earned.
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Work Longer, Die Sooner! America's Dire Need to Expand Social Security and Medicare
May 8, 2024
Experts are clear that working into old age often threatens the health and well-being of U.S. seniors.
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Are You Ready to Dive Deep into China's Intellectual Odyssey?
Apr 25, 2024
Wang Hui, author of The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, now available in English, provides conceptual guidance for understanding China’s intellectual progress in a conversation with INET’s Lynn Parramore.
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Industrial Policy Is a Good Idea, but So Far We Don’t Have One
Apr 19, 2024
The American state has lost the capacity for concentrated and decisive effort at the forefront of technology and the associated science.
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Overdraft Fees, Credit Card Late Fees, and the Lump of Profit Fallacy
Apr 15, 2024
Predetermined profit margins and prices hidden in the back end of a transaction are really just market failures.
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Bernanke and Blanchard’s Obsession with the Wage-Price Spiral
Apr 8, 2024
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.
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Europe's New Fiscal Rules Harm Working People and Women, Boost Right-Wing Radicals
Apr 5, 2024
Behind bogus promises of job creation and economic growth lies a dangerous agenda to shred social safety nets.