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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

Tariff Turmoil and the Money Markets: Single Payer Insurance to the Rescue
In Treasury markets, there are no libertarians, only grateful recipients of single-payer insurance for ailing financial markets.

鈥淔ounders Would Be Horrified鈥: Renowned Historian Drops Truth-Bomb on American Revolution and Lessons for Today
Professor Marc Egnal of York University joins the 糖心logo入口鈥檚 Lynn Parramore to explore why historians cling to an inaccurate and misleading narrative, and what we can learn from the real history about tyranny, checks and balances, imperialism — and resistance.

7 Truths 糖心logo入口 Trump鈥檚 Tariffs 鈥 And the High-Stakes Future They Shape
Top money-and-politics expert Thomas Ferguson breaks down the real drivers of Trump鈥檚 aggressive tariff agenda, from big crypto plans to a new world order emerging.

James K. Galbraith on His Latest Book, DOGE, Bitcoin & More
The distinguished economist talks about the power of entropy in shaping a new economic reality and viewing current events. His new book, , challenges flawed mainstream models that lead to distortions and bad policy.

How Shareholder Activism Became Toxic鈥攁nd How to Fix It
New book reveals how and why hedge-fund activists have been able to suck the life from big-name companies like J.C. Penney and Samsung with their short-sighted profit-grabs. Can their harmful activities be stopped?
Political Investments

Trump, Tariffs, and Exchange Rates: The Message of Elections in the US and Japan
What Japan, the US, and Europe have in common is growing popular anger over the economy despite high stock prices and low unemployment.

How the Wall Street Journal Blew the Story of the Democrats and Inflation
The firehose of affluent consumption continues to drive inflation, not the stimulus package

The Fed and the 鈥淪oft Landing鈥 - Policy or Luck?
The biggest factor in accounting for the strength in the economy is the continuing importance of the wealth effect in sustaining consumption by the affluent.

What Is a 鈥淔air鈥 Drug Price?
Medicare Needs a Perspective on 鈥淐ollective and Cumulative Learning鈥 in Inflation Reduction Act Negotiations

Expert: Why Covid and Future Pandemics are a Bigger Threat than Nukes
Dr. Phillip Alvelda tells INET鈥檚 Lynn Parramore about persistent political and public health failures exposing us to devastating diseases, while vastly underestimating their long-term health effects.