Turgotonomics

From London Review of Books: Of all Obama’s appointments, the most damaging to his credibility with liberal supporters were Lawrence Summers and Timothy Geithner, the chief economic adviser and the secretary of the treasury. Geithner has the air of a perpetual young man looking out for the interests of...

From Foreign Policy: Theories, factual claims, and policy proposals that seemed dead and buried in the wake of the  financial crisis are now clawing their way through the soft earth, ready to wreak havoc once again. Five of these zombie ideas seem worthy of particular attention and, if possible,...

Athens protest, May 5, 2010, Jesse Garcia   From New left Review: During this year’s protests against the Eurozone’s austerity measures—in Greece and, on a smaller scale, Ireland, Italy and Spain—two stories have imposed themselves. The predominant, establishment story proposes a de-politicized naturalization of the crisis: the regulatory measures...

Mel Brooks and the Bankers | by Thorvaldur Gylfason

Vox

The fraudulent CEOs of the 1990s and their accounting allies were the real-life Bialystocks and Blooms