In Memory of Robert Solow

Janine Jackson, author, program director, and producer/host of FAIR’s syndicated weekly radio show Counterspin, interviewed Mark Weisbrot, economist and CEPR co-director, on Javier and the Argentine presidential election.

Extremist foreign policy is both a product of our corrupt political system, and a powerful force in its perpetuation.

Ecuador’s presidential candidates represent opposing sides of the policy choices, goals, values, and interests that brought about the sharply contrasting results of the two preceding episodes.

The 2024 election could determine how much we can fix problems, or whether we move backward toward increasing inequality of income, wealth, and access to education.

What would happen if anyone other than Trump were to win the Republican primary? Would Trump accept the result, or would we see a repeat of “stop the steal?”

It makes no sense for Treasury to block aid, which can save hundreds of thousands of lives in the world, as well as jobs in the US– all at zero cost to the US budget.

The debt ceiling fight was never really about debt reduction. It’s part of a vicious cycle in which political power is abused in order to consolidate a system that is increasingly undemocratic.

On May 19, 2023, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) brought together leading experts in the study of economic sanctions to help to answer a critical, but often-ignored, question: What are the human consequences of US economic sanctions?

Here are eight predictions for the coming year, in accordance with a hallowed tradition that I have previously not honored.