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

High-level Panel Discussion: Development Prospects in a Fractured World
As 2022 comes to a close, panelists discuss the immediate prospects for the global economy, the dangers of a lost decade for developing countries and what needs to be done to put the SDGs back on track.

Worker’s Wages & Leverage Are the Real Targets
Why did Corporate Democrats “cede” the economic argument? Are they really fighting inflation or trying to weaken workers’ bargaining power? INET’s Thomas Ferguson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.

You’re Living in a World Wrought by the Federal Reserve. Notice Anything Wrong?
In her new book, veteran Wall Street watcher and economist Nomi Prins warns that central bank strategies deployed since the financial crisis are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos.

Bernanke v. Kindleberger: Which Credit Channel?
In the papers of economist Charles Kindleberger, Perry Mehrling found notes on the paper that won Ben Bernanke his Nobel Prize.

Big Tech: Not Only Market But Also Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
How do we regulate an information utility?
Beware of Toxic Innovation

China’s Development Path: Indigenous Innovation and Global Competition
China’s successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States

Does Nature Have Rights?
Ruskin scholar Jeffrey Spear, author of “Dreams of an English Eden: Ruskin and his Tradition in Social Criticism,” discusses how the insights of a key 19th-century thinker can help us build a new paradigm for protecting the planet – and save us from ourselves.
The Fed Tackles Kalecki

Why The Ukraine Crisis Will Make Little Difference to Dollar Supremacy
The depth of the U.S. securities market helps ensure dollar hegemony

A Comment on Lysandrou and Nesvetailova
James K. Galbraith responds on the U.S. dollar system

Giant Tech Firms Plan to Read Your Mind and Control Your Emotions. Can They Be Stopped?
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke explains why the practices of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple are so dangerous and what’s really required to rein them in. Hint: Current proposals are unlikely to work.