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5 votes
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Donald Trump trade advisers plot US dollar devaluation
18 votes -
US President Joe Biden raises tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese imports: EVs, solar panels, batteries and more
23 votes -
Seattle’s law mandating higher pay for food delivery workers is a case study in backfire economics
18 votes -
Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has become a European hotspot for the super rich
19 votes -
Spending cuts are often false economies that end up costing society dearly
16 votes -
Venezuela to accelerate cryptocurrency shift as oil sanctions return
8 votes -
Inflation in times of overlapping emergencies: Systemically significant prices from an input–output perspective
7 votes -
Norway unveiled plans to remove a loophole used by the Nordic nation's richest – government attempts to drag more tax revenue out of the fleeing billionaires
15 votes -
Finland's proposed labour reforms risk doing more harm than good
8 votes -
US Federal Trade Commission head Lina Khan is fighting for an anti-monopoly America. Some say Khan – who’s gone after Kroger, Amazon, and Nvidia – has redefined the US antitrust landscape.
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Abolishing inheritance tax sent Stockholm's startup ecosystem soaring – tax cut could revive Britain's flagging economy
9 votes -
Leasing like a state, or: public housing is development policy
7 votes -
Finnish unions have called for industrial action to protest government proposals on labour law reforms which they say would adversely impact low-wage earners
10 votes -
Greedflation accounts for fifty-three cents of every US dollar of inflation in past six months
62 votes -
Palm Springs capped Airbnb rentals. Now some home prices are in free-fall.
49 votes -
Global minimum tax on multinationals goes live to raise up to $220bn
28 votes -
Why the US never saves money on health care
25 votes -
Canadian federal government considering new caps on payday lending and high risk lending
12 votes -
Europe's single currency, used daily by about 350 million people, has become a hot topic in an unlikely place – Sweden
12 votes -
Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
33 votes -
Africa is dogged by debt
10 votes -
Rising long-term interest rates are posing the latest threat to a US economic ‘soft landing’
24 votes -
Poverty, not the poor - a systematic analysis of the relatively high stable rate of US poverty using multinational data
21 votes -
US national debt tops $33 trillion for first time
10 votes -
The conservative push for “school choice” has had its most successful year ever
44 votes -
Norway wealth tax pushes the rich to move to Switzerland – millionaire prime minister has embarked on a push to tax the wealthiest for social justice
41 votes -
A huge threat to the US budget has receded. No one is sure why (A decade of Medicare spending growth and projections)
18 votes -
Poland cuts tax for first-time homebuyers and raises it for those buying multiple properties
29 votes -
US Education Department readies latest tranche of student debt relief but faces new legal challenges to the program
18 votes -
We need to raise a lot more in tax from the wealthy but that does not convince me that we need a wealth tax
39 votes -
What a green monetary policy could look like
8 votes -
Portugal’s bid to attract foreign money backfires as rental market goes ‘crazy’
45 votes -
Mastercard move at cannabis shops intensifies call for US decriminalization
42 votes -
What the data says about food stamps in the US
10 votes -
Türkiye is heading for a classic currency crisis. All of its reserves and then some are borrowed.
28 votes -
Why does market fundamentalism have so much clout in economics?
There's a couple of other words that describe what I'm talking about - neoliberalism, lassez-faire capitalism, and in a more general sense, the Chicago school of economics - but I chose market...
There's a couple of other words that describe what I'm talking about - neoliberalism, lassez-faire capitalism, and in a more general sense, the Chicago school of economics - but I chose market fundamentalism because it seemed to best describe precisely what I'm talking about. I mean the belief that the market is capable of self-regulation and that governmental intervention will cause damage to the economy.
I'm asking this because there's still a lot about economics that I don't know about and so I was hoping someone with a background in the subject who would be able to better answer the question. But I realize it's probably also a political question. I wonder if it's more of an issue of our politicians pressing these views than economists and academics.
Personally, with my life's experience, it seems almost obviously wrong. I've lived through several market downturns and even a crash, and looking through history it seems like every market crash can be attributed to the market failing to correct itself.
21 votes -
China curbs exports of key computer chip materials
5 votes -
US Supreme Court strikes down President Biden's student loan forgiveness: Now what?
117 votes -
US President Joe Biden can probably forgive student debt even if Supreme Court of the United States rules against him
28 votes -
US Federal Reserve holds off on rate hike, but says two more are coming later this year
24 votes -
The high-wire drama of raising the US debt ceiling is making headlines again. Is there a better way? Perhaps Denmark has the answer.
5 votes -
The reasons behind France’s pension protests
3 votes -
Super-rich abandoning Norway at record rate as wealth tax rises slightly – flood moving abroad has come as a shock and is costing tens of millions in lost tax receipts
10 votes -
Joko Widodo wants local governments to ditch Visa, Mastercard
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The incredible tantrum venture capitalists threw over Silicon Valley Bank
5 votes -
Beijing needs to junk its economic playbook
4 votes -
Norway's fossil fuel bonanza stokes impassioned debate about how best to spend its 'war profits'
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Battle for the nation's soul – Norway faces debate about gas and oil wealth
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Norway-style windfall tax on energy companies could raise £33.3bn extra by 2027, plugging a hole in UK government finances, analysis has found
4 votes