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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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Why Hysteria Over the Italian Budget Is Wrong-Headed
Reactions to the size of the proposed plan rely on discredited assumptions and betray a fundamental misunderstanding of economic growth—and austerity
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A Better Bailout Was Possible
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Macroeconomics Predicted the Wrong Crisis
Distracted by the perceived threat of a Chinese savings glut, mainstream macroeconomists missed the writing on the wall of the 2008 crisis
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Mortgage Fraud Fueled the Financial Crisis—and Could Again
Both before 2008 and today, there’s a disturbing tendency in Washington to not take mortgage fraud seriously