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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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Worrying About the Deficit is So 17th Century

Jun 6, 2018

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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How Bill Cosby, Obama and Mega-preachers Sold Economic Snake Oil to Black America

May 2, 2018

It’s time to connect political violence with economic violence.

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The Real Driver of Rising Inequality

May 1, 2018

Wage suppression—not monopoly power—is fueling corporate profits and the growing gap between rich and poor