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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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Italy’s Crisis Is the Left’s Crisis
When politics is defined in terms of “populism” vs. “the mainstream,” the possibility for real economic reform is diminished.
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Worrying About the Deficit is So 17th Century
In “celebration” of the late Pete Peterson’s 92nd birthday (see guest list), an excerpt from 19th Century historian Lord Macaulay’s History of England, on hundreds of years of unwarranted panic about government debt.
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Jim Chanos: “Cryptocurrency is a security speculation game masquerading as a technological breakthrough”
The “dean of short sellers” says bitcoin is the last thing he’d want to own in the event of a catastrophe.