വിഭാഗം: സാമ്പത്തികശാസ്ത്രം

Learning Capital 9

Thomas Ferguson. He's a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and he's also a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.

DESVARIEUX: So, Michael, this week we’re going to be talking about the very popular book by French economist Thomas Piketty. It’s a 700-page book that takes on the topic of income inequality. Why do you think so many people are talking about this book? What’s in it that has people buzzing? HUDSON: Statistics. It shows … Continue reading പ്രശ്നത്തിന് പരിഹാരമില്ലാത്തടത്തോളം വിമര്‍ശനം സ്വീകാര്യം →

the one kind of debt that really isn’t an issue is public debt, because there’s a great difference between public and private debt. Governments can own the printing presses. No government can become insolvent as long as its debt is owed in its own currency. And not only has the U.S. public debt gone down … Continue reading പൊതുകടം ഒരു പ്രശ്നമല്ല →

You heard Attorney General Eric Holder say last week that we can’t prosecute the banks, because they already are so insolvent that we would have to take them over if we fined them. They wouldn’t have any reserves left, after paying the fines proportional to the gains they made by their lawbreaking. We would have … Continue reading 80 ശതമാനം ബാങ്ക് ലോണുകളും →