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Znet Article Weisbrot: Big Rate Cuts and Fiscal Stimulus: Are We "All Keynesians Now?"

Znet Article, January, 23 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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It was 1971 when Richard Nixon, a conservative, uttered the famous phrase "We are all Keynesians Now. " But there was a backlash soon to follow, with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher changing the world as perhaps no two other people did in the ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Americans Need to Look Beyond the Media on Venezuela

Znet Article, January, 17 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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If we read the newspapers and watch TV in the United States, we are told that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is a "dictator," "authoritarian," "a threat to democracy" in his own country and the region, and "anti-U.S." But leaders who try to em...

Znet Article Weisbrot: "Suitcase Scandal" is Another U.S. Foreign Policy Blunder

Znet Article, January, 10 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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On December 20 the U.S. government indicted four Venezuelans and one Uruguayan for allegedly acting as foreign agents without notifying the U.S. government. The charges stem from an incident that occurred on August 4 when Guido Antonini Wilson, a ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Inter-American Press Association Shouldn't Pursue Partisan Agenda in Venezuela

Znet Article, January, 09 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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A January 2 article in Editor and Publisher gives the impression that the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA) is defending freedom of expression in Venezuela.

Znet Article Weisbrot: A Lesson From the Last, and Next, Recession

Znet Article, January, 03 2008 Mark Weisbrot
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In the baseball-and-sex classic Bull Durham Susan Sarandon accidentally calls out the wrong name in the heat of passion and makes a remarkably quick recovery. She asks her partner which he would rather have, her having sex with him and saying the ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Housing Crash Still Weighs on the Economy

Znet Article, December, 15 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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If you are like most Americans, you are probably wondering what the hell is going on with the economy. Good question. Since July, when the credit crunch hit, caused by the all those suddenly not-so-good mortgage-backed securities - often referred ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: A Bank of Their Own: Latin America Casting Off Washington's Shackles

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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That was Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil -- not Washington's nemesis, Hugo Chavez -- speaking in the Republic of Congo just two weeks ago. Although our foreign policy establishment remains in cozy denial about it, the recognition that Washi...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Argentina Elects Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner: It's the Economy

Znet Article, December, 12 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became the first woman elected to the presidency of Argentina on Sunday. Her victory is not difficult to explain. Her political party, under President Nestor Kirchner (her husband), led a dramatic economic turnaround...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Venezuela is Not Florida

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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No one should have been surprised by Chavez's immediate concession: Venezuela is a constitutional democracy, and its government has stuck to the democratic rules of the game since he was first elected in 1998. Despite the non-renewal of the broadc...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Progressive Change in Venezuela and Latin America

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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The defeat of the Venezuelan government's proposed constitutional reforms last Sunday will probably not change very much in Venezuela. Most of what...

Znet Article Weisbrot: IMF Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy

Znet Article, October, 19 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Finance ministers, bankers, and businessmen will gather in Washington DC this week for the annual Fall Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. As is customary, the IMF is publishing its analysis of the world economy, and this y...

Znet Article Weisbrot: IMF Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy

Znet Article, October, 19 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Finance ministers, bankers, and businessmen will gather in Washington DC this week for the annual Fall Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. As is customary, the IMF is publishing its analysis of the world economy, and this

Znet Article Weisbrot: IMF Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy

Znet Article, October, 19 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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IMF Misses Epoch-Making Changes in the Global Economy

Znet Article Weisbrot: Why the "Free Trade" Agenda is Losing Steam

Znet Article, October, 10 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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The 2006 Congressional elections were a turning point for U.S. trade policy. One issue that helped Democrats retake the Congress was a renewed sense of distrust among the electorate of our government's trade policy, which is commonly mislabeled as...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Needed for Labor Day: Something to Celebrate

Znet Article, September, 05 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Another Labor Day is here and American workers are still waiting for something to celebrate. How about a wage increase? Well, the average real wage today is just where it was nearly five years ago, in December 2002, despite the fact that our econo...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Eyes Wide Shut: The International Media Looks at Venezuela

Znet Article, August, 14 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Most consumers of the international media will be surprised to find that the controversy over Venezuela's oldest TV station, RCTV, is still raging. We were rep...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Media-Generated "Scandal" Undermines Democracy in Ecuador

Znet Article, July, 28 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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In his recent book, The Assault on Reason, former Vice-President Al Gore describes how "the potential for manipulating mass opinions and feelings initially discovered by commercial advertisers is now being even more aggressively exploited by a new...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Argentina's Hold-out Bondholders Try to Scare Ecuador, Not Very Effectivley

Znet Article, July, 26 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Argentina's Hold-out Bondholders Try to Scare Ecuador, Not Very Effectivley

Znet Article Weisbrot: Congress Should Reject Trade Agreement with Colombia

Znet Article, July, 12 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Congress Should Reject Trade Agreement with Colombia

Znet Article Weisbrot: Globalization, Productivity, and 'Protectionism': A Response to Foreign Affairs

Znet Article, July, 10 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Globalization, Productivity, and 'Protectionism': A Response to Foreign Affairs

Znet Article Weisbrot: A New Assertiveness for Latin American Governments

Znet Article, June, 13 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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A New Assertiveness for Latin American Governments

Znet Article Weisbrot: The World Bank After Wolfowitz: Harm Reduction

Znet Article, May, 30 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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When Paul Wolfowitz finally agreed to resign from the presidency of the World Bank, it seemed th...

Znet Article Weisbrot: IMF and World Bank Face Declining Authority as Venezuela Announces Withdrawal

Znet Article, May, 03 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Venezuela's decision this week to pull out of the IMF and the World Bank will be seen in ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: ECONOMIC MISINFORMATION PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE IN FRENCH ELECTION

Znet Article, April, 27 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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ECONOMIC MISINFORMATION PLAYS A MAJOR ROLE IN FRENCH ELECTION

Znet Article Weisbrot: BRINGING THE WORLD BANK INTO THE 21ST CENTURY

Znet Article, April, 26 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Here in Washington, Word Bank employees agitating for the dismissal of their embattled chief execut...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Is Hugo Chavez a Threat to Stability? No.

Znet Article, April, 04 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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I have been asked to comment on the question of "whether President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela poses a threat to regional stability and how his critics, in...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Every Uninsured Child Should Have Access to Health Care

Znet Article, April, 03 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Every Uninsured Child Should Have Access to Health Care

Znet Article Weisbrot: Bolivia's Morales Deserves Applause

Znet Article, March, 27 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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"In our culture, there is a cosmic law. Don't steal. Don't lie. Don't be lazy ... in our culture, honesty is very ...

Znet Article Weisbrot: Political and Economic Changes in Latin America Likely to Continue

Znet Article, March, 20 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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Sunday (March 18) -- President Bush has recently returned from a seven day, five country trip to Latin America, with which he had hoped to regain some of the influence that the Unite...

Znet Article Weisbrot: President Bush's Trip to Latin America Is All About Denial

Znet Article, March, 17 2007 Mark Weisbrot
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  "State of Denial" is the title of Bob Woodward's famous book on the Bush team's road to disaster in Iraq, but it would have served just as well for a description of their Latin America policy. This week President Bush heads Sou...

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