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Government is a money destroyer

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Turbulência bancária[embedded content] Turbulência bancária Por STAVROS MAVROUDEAS* Crítica de um artigo recente de Yanis Varoufakis Num artigo recente, Yanis Varoufakis, referindo-se à atual turbulência bancária internacional, proferiu o slogan supostamente radical “deixem os bancos queimarem”. É claro que esse autor não é famoso pela coerência das suas análises econômicas. Como ele mesmo se descreveu, é um criador de contos de fadas que se passa por um economista. O referido...

https://www.ihu.unisinos.br/categorias/627148-falencias-bancarias-artigo-de-stavros-mavroudeas «A falência do Silicon Valley Bank não é um incidente isolado. Foi precedido por outra rachadura no sistema financeiro no setor pecaminoso de criptomoedas», escreve Stavros Mavroudeas. Stavros Mavroudeas é professor no Departamento de Política Social da Universidade Panteão na Grécia. O artigo foi publicado por A Terra é Redonda, 18-03-2023. A tradução é de Eleutério F. S. Prado. Eis...

Government is a money destroyer

Factbox: What’s in Republican McCarthy’s debt-limit spending cut package? Reuters, Andy Sullivan. Items Republicans and McCarthy are pushing for in a debt-limit package. The bill would essentially pair $4.5 trillion in spending cuts with a $1.5 trillion increase in the federal debt limit. Republicans are wanting to talk about government borrowing. “What’s in your wallet,” today as one bank loves to ask when it comes to credit cards. Well,...

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Karl Marx was born on 5 May 1818. Over half a century ago, economists, building on the work of Piero Sraffa, extended Marx's critique. They showed that his approach to political economy was basically correct. The marginal revolution was a mistake. Here are the titles of some of the books on my bookshelf: Syed Ahmad. 1991. Capital in Economic Theory: Neo-classical, Cambridge and Chaos. Edward Elgar. C. E. Ayres. 1946. The Divine Right of Capital. Houghton Mifflin. Eugen von...