Mamdani Needs to Catch the Value Capture Bus
New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has drawn both praise and sneers for his free bus proposal. As detailed
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New Issue! Focus on Europe
We have just sent our May/June 2017 issue to e-subscribers, and print subscribers should find the issue in their
Eurozone Stagnation: Wrong diagnosis, wrong medicine, no recovery
By John Weeks What the EC Doctors Said If a doctor misdiagnoses a patient’s malady and prescribes an inappropriate
Financing vs. Spending Unions: How to Remedy the Eurozone’s Original Sin
By Thomas Palley In economic policy, timing isn’t everything, it’s the only thing. The euro zone crisis has
Alone Now: From Hope to Brexit Despair
By John Weeks A Tale of Two Summers The summer of 2015 brought a spectacularly bright ray of progressive hope
Report from Greece, plus more links on Greece
(1) When Greece Bailed Out Germany: Via Portside, the image above was the "poster of the week" recently
Latest Greece Links
Greek referendum 2015: demonstration for voting NO at Syntagma square, Athens Greece. Wikimedia Commons, author Ggia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
Report from Greece; Links on Greece
Links to good pieces on tomorrow's Yes/No referendum in Greece: * Yanis Varoufakis (Greece's finance minister)
Links on Yanis Varoufakis
One of the exciting things about the new SYRIZA government in Greece is that the new finance minister is Yanis
Mike-Frank Epitropoulos on SYRIZA Victory
See also Mike-Frank Epitropoulos's pre-election piece, A Second Demonstration Project for Greece. Patti Smith's song People
The Euro “Recovery” in Real Time (in Case You Missed It)
If you read the Financial Times on 2 May, you learned that at long last recovery gathered pace among the