Retirement Savings in the Dark
For most of the 20th century, there was a clear wall between working people’s pension funds and the riskier corners of financial markets. This wasn’t accidental—it was the law.
Joseph Stiglitz
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An Undergraduate’s Question about Economic Policy
By Thomas Palley Cross-posted from the author's blog. Note: for a primer on neoliberalism, see our two-part article
Tuesday Links: TPP, Corbyn, Sanders, etc.
Off Guardian (embedded above), Tony Benn speech on the aims of Thatcherite policies. Via Gaius Publius, via Naked Capitalism, where
Links on Cops, Wage Stagnation, Phil Gramm, etc.
(1) Cops: I just posted Kristian Williams' article in our current issue, Poverty Crime, Privileged Crime: Policing and Economic
Report from Greece; Links on Greece
Links to good pieces on tomorrow's Yes/No referendum in Greece: * Yanis Varoufakis (Greece's finance minister)