Economics
Does Venezuela’s crisis prove socialism doesn’t work?
August 27, 2018The current crisis is often described as the worst in Venezuela’s history and, with hundreds of thousands fleeing the country, that's hard to dispute.
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Working families finally earn more than they did in 2000
August 24, 2018If wages start eating into corporate profits, the Federal Reserve will respond with interest rate hikes to slow down economic activity and weaken labor’s bargaining power.
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Greece after the bailout: Lessons for the left
August 23, 2018Eight years on and the truth cannot be hidden. The imposition of neoliberal solutions on Greece has been a catastrophe.
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China opens to world as Trump erects protectionist walls
July 11, 2018Trump's trade wars and white nationalist immigration policies will shape global development, but not always as he might intend.
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Employment numbers and criminal regimes
June 13, 2018It's astonishing, and would confuse classical liberal economists like Adam Smith and David Ricardo, that low unemployment coincides with so little growth in wages.
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