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Weisbrot: The Jamaicanisation of the Eurozone

Znet Article, May, 20 2012 Mark Weisbrot
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By imposing budget cuts and austerity, the ECB is condemning countries like Greece and Spain to an economic twilight zone

Weisbrot: Argentina and the Magic Soybean: the Commodity Export Boom That Wasn't

Znet Article, May, 06 2012 Mark Weisbrot
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Argentina's record levels of employment and massive reductions in poverty have little to do with exports

Weisbrot: Argentina's Critics Are Wrong Again About Renationalising Oil

Znet Article, April, 19 2012 Mark Weisbrot
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The Argentinian government's decision to renationalise the oil and gas company YPF has been greeted with howls of outrage, threats, forecasts of rage and ruin

Weisbrot: America's Subversion of Haiti's Democracy Continues

Znet Article, March, 16 2012 Mark Weisbrot
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Even though former President Aristide has eschewed politics since his return from exile, the US is still threatening him

Weisbrot: Venezuela's Opec Stand Is A Win For Climate Change Campaigners

Znet Article, March, 05 2012 Mark Weisbrot
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Environmentalists who support developing countries' fight against polluters should also back their struggle for control of oil

Weisbrot: Brazil Takes the Lead in Trying to Prevent Another Senseless War

Znet Article, March, 04 2012 Mark Weisbrot
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Brazil’s foreign minister, Antonio Patriota, made a courageous and very important statement last week about the rising threat of a military attack on Iran

Weisbrot: Why American 'Democracy Promotion' Rings Hollow in the Middle East

Znet Article, February, 13 2012 Mark Weisbrot
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Egypt's crackdown on Republican and Democratic organisations is hardly surprising: they're widely seen as stooges of US empire

Weisbrot: The Eurozone: Self-Inflicted Depression

Znet Article, February, 09 2012 Mark Weisbrot
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The fiscal crisis is continuing through a combination of incompetence and politics

Weisbrot: Why American 'Democracy Promotion' Rings Hollow In The Middle East

Znet Article, February, 02 2012 Mark Weisbrot
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Egypt's crackdown on Republican and Democratic organisations is hardly surprising: they're widely seen as stooges of US empire

Weisbrot: The Economic Idiocy of Economists

Znet Article, January, 12 2012 Mark Weisbrot
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The American Economic Association's annual meeting is red-letter day for 'the dismal science'. And dismal it proved

Weisbrot: Appeal to Brazil

Znet Article, January, 06 2012 Mark Weisbrot
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The march toward war is accelerating now because of the 2012 elections

Weisbrot: End of Iraq War is a Victory for Peace Movement – But What a Heinous Crime Was Committed

Znet Article, December, 23 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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The coverage of the end of the Iraq War is yet another reminder of the horrible role that the major media plays in burying the truth

Weisbrot: United Nations must Face up to the Disaster it Caused in Haiti

Znet Article, December, 22 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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Despite overwhelming evidence, the UN has still not taken responsibility for the cholera disaster in Haiti

Weisbrot: Europe’s Crisis and Latvia’s “Success”

Znet Article, December, 18 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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Sooner or later the European authorities will have to stop building that bridge to the 19th century, and use modern economic policy to pull the European economy out of recession

Weisbrot: Eurozone Crisis: Why the Fed Should Buy Italian Bonds

Znet Article, December, 01 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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If the ECB and European authorities stick with their suicidal doctrine of austerity, then the Federal Reserve must intervene

Weisbrot: Honduras: America's Great Foreign Policy Disgrace

Znet Article, November, 20 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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First, the US backed a coup that deposed the elected president. Now, it's backing the return of death-squad government

Weisbrot: Italy Pushed to the Brink by ECB Fiscal Orthodoxy

Znet Article, November, 11 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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The European Central Bank's insistence on budget-tightening in a recession has forced Italy's finances into a deadly spiral

Weisbrot: Obama Administration Escalates Confrontation With Iran: Why?

Znet Article, October, 29 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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President Obama announced that “all options are on the table,” which is well-known code for possible military action

Weisbrot: Cristina Kirchner and Argentina's Good fortune

Znet Article, October, 27 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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Under the Kirchner administrations, Argentina has achieved the fastest growth in the west – after defaulting. Listening, Europe?

Weisbrot: The US Today: Economic Stagnation, Political Paralysis

Znet Article, October, 09 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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If present trends continue, we are going to be looking at intolerably high levels of unemployment for years to come

Weisbrot: The Eurozone: A Crisis of Policy, Not Debt

Znet Article, October, 03 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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The "European debt crisis" is misnamed; it is not so much a crisis of debt as a crisis of policy failure

Weisbrot: Can BRICS Help Europe?

Znet Article, October, 01 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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The BRICS countries would not necessarily help Europe by throwing money at them

Weisbrot: Brazil's "Independent" Central Bank: Independent from Whom?

Znet Article, September, 16 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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It is difficult to find a legitimate argument for the central bank to be independent of the will of the electorate

Weisbrot: Brazil's "Wall Street" Problem

Znet Article, September, 02 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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Brazil's economy is slowing, but the government is increasing its primary surplus by cutting spending, which could slow the economy more

Weisbrot: The "Debt Crisis" Myth

Znet Article, August, 20 2011 Mark Weisbrot
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There is no legitimate economic reason for a sovereign debt burden -- even an unsustainable one -- to result in years of economic stagnation and high unemployment