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Why We Have No Choice But to Stop Oil and Gas
Current Affairs is Ad-Free and depends entirely on YOUR support. Can you help? Subscribe from 16 cents a day ($5 per month) A Magazine of Politics and Culture Sign In Current Affairs’s all-new Single Issue page is coming soon. Lorne Stockman of Oil Change International explains what will be needed to successfully prevent complete climate catastrophe. Oil Change International is a not-for-profit research, communications, and advocacy group.
We Need to Stop Private Equity from Stealing our Retirement and Ruining our Public Goods
Retirement, in recent years, has increasingly become your problem. Since the 1980s, the —which offers a stable, guaranteed monthly income in retirement—has largely been replaced by the 401(k) plan, which allows employers to contribute a defined amount to a retirement account but provides no guarantees about the ultimate value of the benefits. This, as many have argued, has been a raw deal for workers.
We Need to Stop Private Equity from Stealing our Retirement and Ruining our Public Goods
Retirement, in recent years, has increasingly become your problem. Since the 1980s, the —which offers a stable, guaranteed monthly income in retirement—has largely been replaced by the 401(k) plan, which allows employers to contribute a defined amount to a retirement account but provides no guarantees about the ultimate value of the benefits. This, as many have argued, has been a raw deal for workers.
We Can Take Monetary Policy Out of the Hands of Technocrats
Feinig traces a similar cycle playing out several times in the subsequent centuries. The state issues an inconvertible paper currency to meet some fiscal emergency, usually war, which leads to widespread popular engagement with the money question. Conservative reaction — the drive to enclose public currency for private gain and remove the money question from the sphere of popular politics — quickly follows.
The Entirely Predictable Collapse of FTX Exposes the Failures of Regulators and Journalists
Current Affairs is Ad-Free and depends entirely on YOUR support. Can you help? Subscribe from 16 cents a day ($5 per month) A Magazine of Politics and Culture Sign In Current Affairs’s all-new Single Issue page is coming soon. The most ‘respectable’ of the crypto billionaires was just another fraudster. When will journalists stop hyping this industry? When will regulators protect consumers from getting ripped off by the next Ponzi scheme?
Europe’s Central Bank Has a New Tool to Protect Bond Markets. When Will It Protect Workers?
The European Central Bank (ECB) has a dilemma. With the Eurozone facing unprecedented inflation (8.6 percent in June), many on the Governing Council want to see a rapid and substantial rise in interest rates. But raising rates too much, or too quickly, risks destabilizing the euro by threatening the fiscal sustainability of the Eurozone’s most indebted countries. Italy, the European Union’s third-largest economy, is the chief concern.
Who Needs the Government Securities Market?
The $21-trillion market in U.S. government securities is the “deepest and most liquid fixed-income market in the world.” Except, of course, when it isn’t. As last year’s historic meltdown in the Treasury market demonstrated, the status of Treasury securities as the ultimate safe, liquid asset—to which investors will predictably flee in times of uncertainty, war, panic, or pandemic—is not a given.
Mainstreaming MMT
OCTOBER 8, 2020 THE PAST FEW YEARS have been good ones for Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). A decade ago, you would have been hard-pressed to find a mainstream economist who had even heard of this fringe school of left-Keynesian economics. But ever since Bernie Sanders made MMT proponent Stephanie Kelton a senior economic advisor for his 2016 presidential campaign, it has gradually trickled into the mainstream.
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