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Egypt’s Revolutionary Narrative Breaks Down With Hosni Mubarak long gone, a heavily Islamist parliament in place, and the military in ...

Working out of debt The efforts of developed countries to work out from under a massive overhang of debt shows how uneven progress ha...

Which Countries Will Be Forced To Bail Out The Developed World by Keith Weiner Update:   literally seconds after this article was post...

Goldman swap shows Greece was Europe’s sub-prime nation By Nick Dunbar All the talk about Greece trying to persuade its creditors to sw...

The Greek/Goldman 2001 deal, overlooked aspects, and open questions Former prime minister Costas Simitis lost in 2001 a timely opportun...

Eventually, Will Come a Time When .... by  Mike "Mish" Shedlock Inquiring minds note that French presidential candidate...

Why the Fed Slept By R. Samuelson  The recent release of the 2006 transcripts of the Federal Reserve's  main policy-making body sti...

Opposing Imperialism Is Not "Isolationism" By Sheldon Richman When pundits and rival politicians call Ron Paul an “isolationi...

The Fed’s Men Behind the Curtain by Jeffrey Tucker The debate about the Fed is under way, and thank goodness. But as with many poli...

The extras will all be cast as cannon fodder By Ilargi For today’s global financial problems, there are no solutions that are favorable ...

A Revolution in Higher Education is Underway By Mark Perry A few days ago, I  reported on how MITx  could revolutionize higher ed...

DEMOCRACY AS AN ILLUSION By Simon Black With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the mo...

Hard Times Again By Theodore Dalrymple   We live in hard times, and all the indications are that they may get much, even very  much, har...

The Tragic Truth About India's Caste System Untouchables cling to it because they have few other choices. By Shikha Dalmia   My ...

The Market Economy Under Siege Βυ   Pater Tenebrarum Ever since the 2008 financial crisis we have frequently remarked in these pages ho...

The Future of Economics By Steve Keen For its entire history, macroeconomics has been dominated by mathematical models that ignore the ...

What Have We Learned in the Past 13 Years? We have learned nothing since 1999 except the Central State and Central Bank will intervene in ...

Living Off Immoral Earnings By Tim Price “The reality… is that banks … support a thick layer of second tier executives, as well as leg...

Greek Update By DoctoRx Bloomberg.com is out after the close of trading with  EU to Have No Deadline for End of Greek Talks .  Bloombe...

Tragedy of the Commons by Garrett Hardin In 1974 the general public got a graphic illustration of the “tragedy of the commons” in satel...