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The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022: A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
Why the conventional tools of the Phillips Curve, NAIRU, potential output, and money-supply growth are useless
Luigi Pasinetti (1930-2023)
Time Bomb in Global Finance

Meet the Grinch Stealing the Future of Gen Y And Z
Salaries in the U.S. aren鈥檛 keeping up with inflation, despite pandemic-related increases in some sectors. That鈥檚 a major threat to the future for all working Americans 鈥 especially the youngest.

High-level Panel Discussion: Development Prospects in a Fractured World
As 2022 comes to a close, panelists discuss the immediate prospects for the global economy, the dangers of a lost decade for developing countries and what needs to be done to put the SDGs back on track.

Worker鈥檚 Wages & Leverage Are the Real Targets
Why did Corporate Democrats 鈥渃ede鈥 the economic argument? Are they really fighting inflation or trying to weaken workers鈥 bargaining power? INET’s Thomas Ferguson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.

You鈥檙e Living in a World Wrought by the Federal Reserve. Notice Anything Wrong?
In her new book, veteran Wall Street watcher and economist Nomi Prins warns that central bank strategies deployed since the financial crisis are destroying the real economy, worsening inequality, and creating societal chaos.

Bernanke v. Kindleberger: Which Credit Channel?
In the papers of economist Charles Kindleberger, Perry Mehrling found notes on the paper that won Ben Bernanke his Nobel Prize.

Big Tech: Not Only Market But Also Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
How do we regulate an information utility?
Beware of Toxic Innovation

China鈥檚 Development Path: Indigenous Innovation and Global Competition
China鈥檚 successful technological development path stands in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States