Tag: markets
Obama on Globalization: A Success Story
Barack Obama’s Nelson Mandela speech praised globalization and market-based solutions for their role in lifting one billion people out of poverty. But is this true? For example, half of this poverty reduction is traceable to…
The SEC and the Inadequacies of Financial Regulation
Damon Silvers, Director of Policy and Special Counsel of the AFL-CIO, speaks at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October 19, 2018 Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and…
Market Fundamentalism and Trade
Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, speaks at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October 19, 2018 Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support…
Antitrust and How Kleptocracy Corrupts What Markets are Supposed to do Well
Bert Foer, Senior Fellow at the American Antitrust Institute speaks at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October 19, 2018 Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support…
The Virtues and Limits of Markets
Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, presents at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October 19, 2018 Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support…
Corporate Tax-Break Subsidies: Boosting Monopolies, Fueling Inequality
Greg Leroy, Executive Director of Good jobs First, speaks at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October 19, 2018 Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our…
Systemic Corporate Crime: Business as Usual, Making Markets Irrelevant
Russell Mokhiber, the editor of the Corporate Crime Reporter, speaks at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October 19, 2018 Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support…
How Market Fundamentalism Corrupts the Political Process
Rob Weissman, president of Public Citizen speaks at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October 19, 2018 Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by…
Endemic Market Failure and Inequality
Dennis Kelleher, CEO of Better Markets, speaks at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October 19, 2018 Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work by…
The Assault on Regulation (And the Case for it)
Tom McGarity, law professor at the University of Texas-Austin, and Rena Steinzor, law professor at the University of Maryland, speak at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October…
Public Goods: When Markets Fail
Prof. Joel Rogers, of University of Wisconsin Law School, speaks at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October 19, 2018 Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support…
The Lack of a Free Market for Executive Compensation
Steven Clifford the author of “The CEO Pay Machine,” speaks at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October 19, 2018 Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support…
Institutionalizing Lawlessness: Systematically Subverting Markets
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader gives the closing talk at the forum, “Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism,” held in Washington DC, on October 19, 2018 Visit https://therealnews.com for more stories and help support our work…
What the September jobs report means for U.S. workers
The September jobs report showed that the U.S. economy created 336,000 jobs last month — a sign that the job market remained strong despite challenges with inflation. Jeanna Smialek, a Federal Reserve and U.S. economy…
