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Remainers claim that Brexit will be an economic apocalypse. But it provides the opportunity for a radical break with neoliberalism. JacobinWhy the Left Should Embrace Brexit Thomas Fazi and Bill Mitchell

ZH does its own exposé.Zero HedgeTrump Cuts Off Funding For Syria's "White Helmets" Tyler DurdenSee alsoSamantha Power catches it on Twitter after support of the White Helmets. Scroll down to view the comments on her post.TrendsMapSamantha Power

Catching out (chiefly UK) media lies. The Guardian in particular takes on the chin.Moon of AlabamaMedia Use Disinformation To Accuse Russia Of Spreading Such b

In an interview with ProMarket, Glen Weyl, co-author of the wildly ambitious (and wildly controversial) new book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society, talks about antitrust, data as labor, and why he thinks the free market system is not actually free. “The entire business community has been speaking with one voice in the common interest of capital as a class,” he says.... A different take on "socialism" and how to implement it using markets in addition to...

People don’t understand the Fed’s balance sheet reduction.

Ministers need to adopt measures that secure a basic human right to engage in productive employment The GuardianThe Guardian view on a job guarantee: a policy whose time has comeEditorial

More questions based on the implications of a job guarantee.EconospeakJob Guarantees, Collective Bargaining and the Right to Strike Sandwichman

What "they" don't want you to see unless you are one of the "them." Short. It estimates that already in 2006 in the US the richest 5% possessed greater net worth than the bottom 95% combined. Real-World Economics Review BlogCitigroup Plutonomy Reports update Edward Fullbrook

Contra the relevance of Marx today based on assumptions of conventional economics.Grasping RealityWarning! Reading Marx's Capital Can Introduce Serious Bugs into Your Wetware!: Hoisted from 2006 Brad DeLong | Professor of Economics, UCAL Berkeley See also Another one dismissive of Marx. Conversable EconomistMarx on Economics: "Its True Ideal is the Ascetic but Rapacious Skinflint and the Ascetic but Productive Slave" Timothy Taylor | Managing editor of the Journal of Economic...

Financial economics. e.g., EMH and CAPM.Stumbling and MumblingProgress in economicsChris Dillow | Investors Chronicle