What’s Crypto Good For? Corruption, Exploitation, and Billions for Insiders
As with the subprime lending crisis, crypto appears to be more of an example of predatory inclusion than enhancing financial access.
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Cashing in the War Dividend (Jo Comerford)
TomDispatch has a new piece by Jo Comerford, director of the National Priorities Project. See below for Tom's
Open Letter on Military Offensive in Central India
We encourage readers of D&S and the D&S blog to consider signing the following open letter.
Homeownership Not All It's Cracked Up to Be?
An economist at the Wharton School just released a study looking at the ancillary individual and community benefits that supposedly
CEOs of the World ... UNITE!
A little ideological confusion at the Wall Street Journal's front page article on Ken Lewis having to forgo
Several Items on Banking Regulation
Several interesting items about financial (re-)regulation, and the unlikelihood of anything approaching adequate regulation getting through Congress, have come
Elinor Ostrom breaks the Nobel mold
From Kevin Gallagher, of Tufts' Global Development and the Environment Institute, in the Guardian. For thoughts on this year&
Sit-In for Single Payer THURS OCT 15th
A coalition called the Mobilization for Health Care for All will be holding sit-ins THURSDAY, OCT 15th at insurance company
A second Great Depression is still possible
From occasional D&S author Thomas Palley, in the Financial Times' Economists' Forum. October 11, 2009 4:
A Note on the Nobel Awards
The Nobel Prize for economics was awarded today to a pair of American professors, Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson. Besides
Calderon Busts Mexican Electrical Workers Union
From Laura Carlsen on the Americas Program blog: Read Carlsen’s full post here. And check out Reuters’ very objective
Two Items on Foreclosures
The New York Times business section has an interesting article about the limited success of the "Making Home Affordable
Memo to Investigators: Dig Deep (Greider)
From The Nation, posted to their website yesterday. For more on the Pecora hearings, check out this NYT op-ed from