I’m not going to talk about the London terrorist attack, at least not directly. Too many people will take care of that in other places. But given that I’m in the middle of a book on UK politics, and the country is just days away from national elections, I thought I Read more…
The second installment of my book on the Brexit mess is out! This one looks at key forces that played into the EU referendum vote — matters like austerity in the form of cuts to the UK’s education system and its National Health Service, as well as concerns over immigration Read more…
This week began with a debate in Greek Parliament called by the Official Opposition (the troika’s main, but not only, domestic cheerleaders) for the purposes of, eventually, indicting me for daring to counter the troika while minister of finance in the first six months of 2015. The troika who had staged a bank run Read more…
This is a clip from Yanis Varoufakis’ talk during the opening plenary of this week’s DiEM25 event, in which he challenges received wisdom around migrants in general and European migration in specific in the context of Europe’s economic challenges. (This clip starts about 4 minutes in. You can catch the Read more…
Brussels faces a second anti-austerity revolt as the Portuguese Left tears up the script and demands the right to govern Read the full post: Defiant Portugal shatters the eurozone’s political complacency Prediction: The boot of austerity will continue to stamp out these fires until it becomes a roaring, cross-border Read more…
A new report produced by the Center for American Progress aims to divine the policy lessons that we’ve learned in the wake of the Great Recession. The report offers three major lessons (the latter two of which I would have expected to have been obvious going in to the recession, but obviously were Read more…
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Here are a handful of my favorite posts from the past year. It’s a bit of a mixed bag (peaks and valleys and whatnot). I hope you’ll find something of value — much more to come in the new year.
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My thoughts on inequality in the context of H.G. Wells’ “The Time Machine.” (If you’re wondering why I’m always muttering about Morlocks and Eloi…) (more…)
Given today’s news on Reinhart & Rogoff’s potential Excel blunder, this February post from The Baseline Scenario seems prescient. But while Excel the program is reasonably robust, the spreadsheets that people create with Excel are incredibly fragile. There is no way to trace where your data come from, there’s no Read more…