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What went wrong with Italy, and what the country should now fight for in Europe

Gennaro Zezza, Sergio Cesaratto

02/11/2018
The European Commission should accept democratic change in Italy

Paul De Grauwe

The European Commission can now force countries to increase taxes and reduce expenditures without, however, having to bear the political costs of these decisions. These costs are borne by national governments. This is a model that does not work.

01/11/2018
Fissuring of Labor Markets, Wage Stagnation, and Rising Wage Inequality

Eileen Appelbaum

What is fissuring, what are the different forms that it can take, and how has fissurinled to low wages for workers in regular jobs with standard employment relations?
What policies will it take to get wages rising again?
(Presentation by Eileen Appelbaum, Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research, to the conference "Building a High Wage America: Lessons from the Heartland")

01/11/2018
Brazil Under an Evil Political Spell

Thomas Palley

30/10/2018
The Housing Bubble and the Great Recession:Ten Years Later

Dean Baker

30/10/2018
The Italian Debt/GDP ratio hysteria

D. Mario Nuti

The arithmetic of Debt/GDP ratio in no way justifies concerns for a budget deficit of 2.4%

30/10/2018
The unfinished business of health reform

Josh Bivens

Reining in market power to restrain costs without sacrificing quality or access.

29/10/2018
Health spending in the U.S. and Europe

Josh Bivens

29/10/2018
U.S.- Poverty declined in most states in 2017

David Cooper and Julia Wolfe

Data shows the decline in the national poverty rate.Yet, most states have still not recovered to their pre-great-recession poverty rates, and 40 states had higher poverty rates in 2017 than in 2000,

29/10/2018