Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN AddThis Social Bookmark Button Credit: UNBy J. C. Suresh IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – The United Nations has painted a rather bleak picture of the global economy in 2012, which it says will be a make-or-break year in terms of proceeding with slow economic recovery or falling back [...]
“Occupy” Actions Across the Country
November 18, 2011 By
The Real News Network November 18, 2011 In DC and other cities, demonstrators rally at bridges More at The Real News
Lehman Three Years Later: What We Haven’t Learned
September 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy The Guardian Unlimited, September 12, 2011 See the article in its original form. Dean Baker As we prepare to celebrate the third anniversary of the Lehman bankruptcy and the ensuing financial crisis, it’s a good time to assess the situation and ask what has changed. The answer is not encouraging. [...]
ARGENTINA: Needs Outstrip Efforts to Build Affordable Housing
August 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente BUENOS AIRES, Aug 12, 2011 (IPS) – The Argentine economy has grown steadily since 2003, and hundreds of thousands of social housing units have been built. Nevertheless, the protests and conflicts that periodically break out make it clear that the solutions have failed to keep [...]
U.S. Audit Faults Fed For $16 Trillion Secret Loans
August 15, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jutta Wolf IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN (IDN) – While the world held its breath in the long drawn political tug-of-war between the White House and Republican Party leaders until beginning of August 2011, Senator Bernie Sanders posted on his website startling findings of a top-to-bottom audit of the [...]
It’s the Free Trade, Stupid
August 11, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy By Ian Fletcher One point that seems largely to have been missed in recent weeks, amid all the excitement over the Federal budget and the sovereign-debt crises in Europe, is how free trade is largely the root cause of all these problems. Let’s trace the causation for a minute. Start [...]
Debt deal distracts from the economy’s real problems.
August 2, 2011 By
Statement on the Debt Ceiling Deal Debt deal distracts from the economy’s real problems. Center for Economic and Policy Research, CEPR For Immediate Release: August 1, 2011 Contact: Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x115 Washington, D.C.- Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), issued the following statement on the debt ceiling [...]
