After the crisis of 2007-8, capitalism has entered among some parts of the public opinion into an ideological crisis. (I have written elsewhere why I think that this is not a general crisis of capitalism but a limited response to the decline of western economic and political power.) However, the question of durability or of non-permanency of capitalism has, unlike in the years after the fall of communism, reentered the public discourse. In many ways, in the West, the situation is returning...
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Thwaites glacier is known as Doomsday: if it collapses, sea surge would submerge major cities across globe A massive hole has been discovered in the Antarctic’s so-called doomsday glacier suggesting it may be melting even faster than scientists have long feared. The massive Thwaites ridge would send sea levels surging by up to two feet if it dissolved completely – enough to submerge major coastal cities across the globe. The Independent Climate crisis: Massive hole opens up...
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Read More »Media, Democratic Establishment Panics as Sanders Predicted to Sweep All 50 States — Alan Macleod
Has socialism's time come? Capitalists freak out at the prospect of a Bernie administration. Interestingly, what this shows is that an economic system is a policy variable in a social system.Mint Press NewsMedia, Democratic Establishment Panics as Sanders Predicted to Sweep All 50 States Alan Macleod
Read More »Is Falling Investment Spending The Last Nail In The Coffin? — John T. Harvey
I have been reporting for months that the indicator we should all be monitoring is Real Gross Private Domestic Investment.... Forbes — Pragmatic EconomicsIs Falling Investment Spending The Last Nail In The Coffin? John T. Harvey | Professor of Economics, Texas Christian University
Read More »AOC: ““It’s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, “
This is where you end up if you are Liberal Art trained to only think in figurative language... textbook reification error 101.. she LITERALLY thinks people are expected to pick themselves up by pulling on their bootstraps...This is like the MMT people saying "does the football game run out of points for the scoreboard?".. its the cognitive equivalent ... doesnt work...So she is manifestly not qualified to work in this area and will then just go to "myth!" or some "neo-liberal conspiracy!"...
Read More »Quebec Issued the First Paper Money in the New World — Martin Armstrong
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Read More »Europe Needs a DARPA — Dalia Marin
An economy needs government-financed investment, but DARPA is the way to do it?Project SyndicateEurope Needs a DARPA Dalia Marin | Chair of International Economics at the University of Munich and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.
Read More »econintersect — 50 Cognitive Biases In The Modern World
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Read More »Modern Monetary Theory: Cash-strapped governments a thing of the past? — Hardy Graupner interviews Dirk Ehnts
States with a currency of their own can never run out of money. That's a core thesis of the Modern Monetary Theory which spilled over to Europe from the US. German economist Dirk Ehnts elaborates on what it's all about.... DW (Deutsche Welle)Modern Monetary Theory: Cash-strapped governments a thing of the past? Hardy Graupner interviews Dirk Ehnts, research assistant at the Chair of European Economics at the Technical University of Chemnitz
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