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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.
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How Despair Helped Drive Trump to Victory
From the Rust Belt to Rural America, Economic and Social Distress Helped Shape the 2016 US Presidential Election Outcome
Can Bitcoin Replace the Dollar?
America’s Rising, Invisible Debt
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How Economists Turned Corporations into Predators
The Idea That Businesses Exist Solely to Enrich Shareholders Is Harmful Nonsense
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Puerto Rico Is Getting Squeezed, and It Will Cost All of Us
The path of austerity could spread economic pain and social woes far beyond the Caribbean island, says public debt expert Martin Guzman