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US protectionism is a flawed strategy
Author: David Dollar, Brookings Institution US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan recently came to the Brookings Institution to deliver a speech
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House Freedom Idiots Gon' Frag Speaker Kevin McCarthy? Maaaybe!
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was so desperate to wield the gavel he might as well have surrendered his voice to Ursula the sea witch. She at least
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COVID-19’s total cost to the economy in US will reach $14 trillion by end of 2023
Once guests trickled back into hotels, they were urged to socially distance. Spencer Platt/Getty Images by Jakub Hlávka, University of Southern
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Thinking About R&D Taxation and the 2017 Tax Law
The exciting technological advances of late, from ChatGPT to the Starship rocket, shouldn’t distract Washington from pro-growth policy advances.
US Capitalism is Sick. The Working Class Must Euthenize It.
Richard MellorAfscme Local 44, retiredInteresting response from the doctor in the above video. He talks of the profound “fear and insecurity in
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World Economy: Well founded pessimism
by Michael Roberts Only last February, I posted that there had been a burst of optimism about the state of the world economy in 2023. The consensus
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Canada braces for mild recession amid US downturn and inflation: Deloitte report
Canada is heading into a mild recession as elevated borrowing costs, a downturn in the United States and persistent inflation produce economic
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Michael Roberts. Banking crisis: is it all over?
by Michael Roberts Bank stock prices have stabilized at the start of this week. And all the key officials at the Federal Reserve, the US Treasury
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World Economy. A burst of optimism: unfounded?
by Michael RobertsThere has been a burst of optimism about the state of the world economy since the beginning of the year. At the end of last year,
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Interest rate “lag effect” and the risks for China’s ethylene glycols market
By John Richardson A BIG HOPE OUT there is that global inflation might have peaked and that, as a result, the West may only have to endure mild
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A flood of PP no matter how what the 2023-2025 demand growth
By John Richardson THE GLOBAL ECONOMY appears to be getting better because of signs that inflation may have peaked in the West as some of the
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Central banks: boom or slump?
by Michael RobertsThree of the major central banks met and raised their policy interest rates yet again in the so-called ‘fight against
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Your complete and updated outlook for global polyethylene in 2023
By John Richardson WHAT FOLLOWS is a summary of the key global challenges facing the polyethylene (PE) industry in 2023 (many of these challenges
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Assessing confidence and the China PE demand recovery: More scenarios are needed
IN THE WEST, confidence in the effectiveness of government policy seems to be low and so probably doesn’t have much of an impact on how people
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The US has reached its debt limit: What does this mean and what comes next?
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned Republican and Democrat leaders that further action is needed by lawmakers to prevent economic default