Government & Politics

Preface to the Japanese Edition of Golden Rule

What is the real reason Democratic party leaders go along with the debt ceiling ritual?

In his new book, “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan To Pillage America,” Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, outlines the dangers of a trillion-dollar industry that hardly anyone understands. He explains how Americans can fight their harmful practices.

Sanctions on Russia are isomorphic to a strict policy of trade protection, industrial policy, and capital controls.

Despite the shock and the costs, the sanctions imposed on the Russian economy were in the nature of a gift.

INET Research on Financial Sector Weakness and Too Big to Fail

Possible repercussions of economic crisis on the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility

The principal threat to economic stability currently is the overhang of debt, both private and public.

The advent of military Keynesianism is a warning against complacency about the moral superiority of the West in defending Ukrainian democracy.

Salaries in the U.S. aren’t keeping up with inflation, despite pandemic-related increases in some sectors. That’s a major threat to the future for all working Americans – especially the youngest.

How Showering Money on Both Parties Paralyzed Regulators

Emerging out of the COVID lockdown, inflation in the U.S. and globally has risen to the highest levels in 40 years. On December 2-3, PERI will host a conference to explore the causes of this global inflation spike. Conference participants will also provide critical perspectives on the austerity macroeconomic policies being implemented globally to control inflation and will propose alternative policies capable of managing inflation without imposing austerity and rising mass unemployment.

The 5th edition of the Law Economics Policy Conference (LEPC) is jointly organized by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, INET and FLAME University.

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.

Moving away from fossil fuels, towards a system with a far greater contribution from variable renewables, means that the current system is not fit for purpose.