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What’s in a name?

…no matter the labels thrown upon them, going back 1000s of years. Its recurring features — concentrated power, weak accountability mechanisms, suppression of organized opposition — are structural problems of…

Limited tricks, monolines, municipal bonds…

William Polley wonders out loud as well: The WSJ Real Time Economics Blog opens a post with this: “Back in 2003, when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to 1%,…

Eyes on Trade

…article by William Drake and Kalypso Nicolaidis shows how corporate lobbyists “got-r-done”: The very act of defining services transactions as ‘trade’ established normative presumptions that ‘free’ trade was the yardstick…