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Ghost Dog

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5. FT front page? It could make a difference...
Mon May 30, 2016, 06:00 AM
May 2016
...The publication of this IMF paper is a sign that the zeitgeist is, years after the crisis, finally shifting. It is becoming too hard to maintain the pretense that the policies that produced the global financial crisis, which are almost entirely still intact, are working. And the elites and their economic alchemists may also recognize that if they don’t change course pretty soon, they risk the loss of not just legitimacy but control. With Trump and Le Pen at the barricades, the IMF wake-up call may be too late...
nice find! lakeguy May 2016 #1
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"Neoliberalism: Oversold?"... ReRe May 2016 #3
As an econ major Dhantesvz May 2016 #4
For 30 years ultraconservative billionaires Hortensis May 2016 #7
I have a background in economics GRhodes May 2016 #9
@GRhodes Dhantesvz Jun 2016 #10
Sounds interesting GRhodes Jun 2016 #11
FT front page? It could make a difference... Ghost Dog May 2016 #5
Thanks malaise May 2016 #6
"The paper gratifyingly says that both austerity and highly mobile capital increase inequality, and pampango May 2016 #8
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