#Unis4all: An Open Letter to the U.S. Higher Education Community
by Maxximilian Seijo, William Saas, Scott Ferguson, and Benjamin Wilson For a growing majority of outspoken adm
INET with Steve Pressman: Could household debt cause the next recession?
Colorado State economist Steve Pressman thinks so: in the next few years rising interest rates could squeeze househol
New Book: All Fall Down – Debt, Deregulation and Financial Crises
By Jane D’Arista. From Edward Elgar: All Fall Down traces the ways in which changes in financial structure and regulati
New Book: Playing with Fire – Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South
By Yilmaz Akyüz. From Oxford University Press: Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (ED
New Book: Fictitious Capital – How Finance Is Appropriating Our Future
by Cédric Durand, translated by David Broder. From Verso: The 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that follow
Greece has a Private Debt Crisis and We Can Blame the Troika
By Lara Merling, The Greek public debt debacle and the bailout received by the government from the European Central Ban
Another US Housing Bubble?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPgkDk1U42k&w=760&h=500] Michael Hudson explains that eve
Student Debt Bubble Diminishes Demand and Ruins Lives, Yet Officials Keep Inflating It
By Yves Smith, The Financial Times has a generally good update on the state of the student debt bubble in the US. The artic
Dirk Bezemer & Michael Hudson: Finance Is Not the Economy
By Dirk Bezemer and Michael Hudson Why have economies polarized so sharply since the 1980s, and especially since the 2
New Book by Steve Keen: Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?
From Polity (to be released April 2017): The Financial Crash that convulsed the world in 2008 had cataclysmic effects o
Brazil’s Enormous Interest Rate Tax: Can Brazilians Afford It?
By Mark Weisbrot, Jake Johnston, and Julia Villarruel Carrillo This paper looks at Brazil’s unusually high interest
J.W. Mason: The Action Is on the Asset Side
By J.W. Mason Like most sectors of the US economy, state and local governments have seen a long-term increase in credit-
Dean Baker: The Old Debt and Entitlement Charade
By Dean Baker, The establishment is trying to pull a big one over on the public yet again. One of the designated topics for
New Book by Dirk H. Ehnts: Modern Monetary Theory and European Macroeconomics
From Routledge: This book provides a new methodological approach to money and macroeconomics. Realizing that the abs
Jobs, Money, Debt: Economic Common Sense (Episode 3: Functional Finance)
The 3rd episode of the Binzagr Institute For Sustainable Prosperity Vlog series is now online “Jobs, Money, Deb
New Paper by Tony Aspromourgos: Keynes, Public Debt and the Complex of Interest Rates
By Tony Aspromourgos, The role of public debt in Keynes’s economic policy thinking is a question of considerable inter
Mathew Forstater on Jobs, Money, Debt & Economic Common Sense
Binzagr Institute’s Vlog (video blog) series “Jobs, Money, Debt: Economic Common Sense” by Mathew Forstater, Resear
Ilene Grabel on Capital Controls
New paper published by PERI. From the abstract: The startling resuscitation of capital controls during the global cri
SCEPA Presents Yanis Varoufakis, Live Online April 25th
Yanis Varoufakis will deliver the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) annual Robert Heilbroner Mem