The Plutonomy—AI Edition—and the Coming Crisis
Driven by speculative finance, stagnant wages, and AI hype, today’s tech-heavy economy mirrors the fragile plutonomy that collapsed into the Great Crash of 1929.
Paul Krugman
9 articles
Krugman’s Failure to Speak Truth to Power about Austerity
By William K. Black Cross-posted at New Economic Perspectives. In the first column in this series I explained how
Hillary’s Threat to Wage Continuous War on the Working Class via Austerity Proved Fatal
By William K. Black Cross-posted at New Economic Perspectives. I’ve come back recently from Kilkenny, Ireland where I
Paul Krugman Crosses the Line
By Gerald Epstein Cross-posted at our sister blog Triple Crisis. In his recent New York Times opinion column, "
Bernie Slanders: How the Democratic Party Establishment Suffocates Progressive Change
By Thomas I. Palley, Independent Economist Washington, D.C. Cross-posted at the author's blog, thomaspalley.com. An
More Links on Kerfuffle about Friedman's Sanders Analysis
Here are more links related to the kerfuffle surrounding our columnist Gerald Friedman's research paper on the likely
Tuesday Links; New Issue!
New Issue! We are just sending this to the printers; e-subscribers will get their full-color pdfs in the
Links: SYRIZA, SOTU, etc.
(1) Greek elections: We just posted an article by Mike-Frank Epitropoulos on tomorrow's elections in Greece, and
Tuesday Links: London Whale, S.A.C. Capital, Jeff Madrick
Apologies about the break from posts for the past week plus. I just moved apartments, and that kept me from
Live-blogging Piketty: Review of Reviews, Pt. 2
This is the third of our book reviewer Steve Pressman's live-blogging posts on Thomas Piketty's