corporatism

This column addresses the high price paid by the President’s Council of Economic Advisors’ failure to read Akerlof & Romer

Michael Hudson argues forcefully that the juxtaposition of bailouts for the largest American banks and cuts for ordinary Americans makes clear that government is promoting a redistribution of income to upper income brackets. He sees the…

It is not clear that there is a political consensus for a stand-alone tax holiday. There may be support for the stand-alone tax holiday as part of a larger corporate tax reform effort. If it is enacted, job growth and capital investment is…

Hoenig, like many Fed leaders from the Reserve banks outside of Washington and the money centers in New York, Boston and San Francisco, is more comfortable with safe and boring banking than the higher risk model that brought the global…

Here's Ron Paul on Chris Matthews' show talking about giving people greater liberty and freedom on a number of different issues. I agree with much of what he says. But here's the part I want to focus in on: property rights. I am all for…

I ran across a post by Robert Murphy over at the Mises Institute blog on Modern Monetary Theory. Since I have been pushing the idea that the centrality of secular debt accumulation makes some ideas from MMT and Austrian Economics…

The following editorial by Timo Soini, the head of the True Finns party in Finland, on perceived corporatism in the EU bailouts of the eurozone periphery appeared in Monday's Wall Street Journal. We are reprinting it here because the…

By William K. Black cross-posted from New Economic Perspectives In the Savings and Loan (S&L) debacle Speaker Wright became enraged at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the Department of Justice when he learned that the FBI was…

It is one of the paradoxes of life that the most practical means to ensure that the system does not collapse is to insist on justice for all and to ignore demands for special treatment premised on claims that justice places the system at…

The following video talk is based on a must-read piece Professor Stiglitz wrote in Vanity Fair on inequality in the United States.