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  • Printed money

    Trump’s new dark money man takes over

    Originally published: The Daily Reckoning on February 5, 2018 (more by The Daily Reckoning)  |

    During her last news conference in December, Janet Yellen stood firm on her record stating, “The global economy is doing well. We’re in a synchronized expansion. This is the first time in many years that we’ve seen this.”

  • Collusion

    Tomgram: Nomi Prins, how to set the economy on fire

    Originally published: TomDispatch on February 1, 2018 (more by TomDispatch)

    There’s no way to measure just how cheery this period really is — not if you’re the CEO of a major company. Just as the World Economic Summit was opening in Davos, Switzerland, and President Donald Trump was flying in to put his mark on the moment, PwS, a global consulting firm, released its annual survey of 1,300 CEOs.

  • Wall Street. (Henry Han / Wikimedia Commons)

    The next financial crisis will be even worse than the last one

    Originally published: Truthdig on December 29, 2017 (more by Truthdig)  |

    We’ve made it through 2017. The first-season installment of presidential Tweetville is ending where it began, on the Palm Beach, Fla., golf course of Mar-a-Lago. Though we are no longer privy to all the footage behind the big white truck, we do know that, given the doubling of its membership fees, others on the course will have higher stakes in the 2018 influence game.

  • Bailout Costs $8.5 Trillion: Interview with Nomi Prins

    Nomi Prins and the Real News Network

      The Real News: The 800 billion announced Tuesday and 7.76 trillion from the Bloomberg estimate add up to $8.56 trillion or $26,500 for every man, woman, or child in the United States.  We spoke to journalist and author Nomi Prins about where these trillions might come from. Nomi Prins: . . . All of […]

  • The $700 Billion Bailout Plan’s Fine Print

    Nomi Prins

      Treasury Sec. Hank Paulson’s $700 billion bailout plan now has a name: the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP.  But even as Capitol Hill debates TARP, few seem to have noticed the proposal item that puts taxpayers on the hook for future bailouts.  It’s in Section 6, and the key phrase is this: “The […]

Monthly Review Essays

  • Extractivism in the Anthropocene
    John Bellamy Foster Dio Cramer

    Late Imperialism and the Expropriation of the Earth.

Lost & Found

  • End of Cold War Illusions
    Harry Magdoff F-16N Fighting Falcon

    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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