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Manhattan Neighborhood Network, August 25, 2016. All Rights Reserved. "Radical Imagination" host Jim Vrettos talks to Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray about what the US economy might look like under a Stein, Clinton, Trump, or Johnson administration. Full video of the interview is available here.

The Week, August 22, 2016. All Rights Reserved. The election isn’t here yet, but it’s looking more and more likely Hillary Clinton will trounce Donald Trump in November. Speculation over who she might appoint as advisors and agency heads has already commenced. And like anyone else, I have got my own opinions about who Clinton should pick, […]

RT America, August 20, 2016. All Rights Reserved. In this interview on "Boom Bust" Research Associate Pavlina R. Tcherneva advocates in favor of a public job guarantee program over universal basic income as a means of alleviating poverty and stabilizing the business cycle. (Interview begins at 15:00.)  Watch here: https://www.rt.com/shows/boom-bust/356572-louisiana-crisis-turkey-economy/ 

RT America TV, August 9, 2016. All Rights Reserved. Research Associate Pavlina R. Tcherneva appears on "Boom Bust" to discuss sluggish growth, labor markets, and her proposal for a job guarantee.  Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvFliCk1osE#t=13m15s  

The Economist, July 28, 2016. All Rights Reserved. From the start of his academic career in the 1950s until 1996, when he died, Hyman Minsky laboured in relative obscurity. His research about financial crises and their causes attracted a few devoted admirers but little mainstream attention: this newspaper cited him only once while he was […]

Public Debt Project, July 14, 2016. All Rights Reserved. Twice in the second half of the twentieth century, in the midst of a robust economy, economists optimistically talked about the taming and even “the death of the business cycle” based on the belief that advances in macroeconomics had reached a point of perfection. Yet, both […]

The New York Times, July 11, 2016. All Rights Reserved. Though job growth surged in June, by and large, this recovery has been the slowest in postwar history and 7.8 million people continue to look, unsuccessfully, for work. There is nothing inevitable or natural about jobless recoveries…. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/07/11/are-we-ready-for-the-next-recession/keep-unemployment-from-mushrooming-with-preventative-policies  

Kathimerini, 3 Ιούλιος 2016. Με επιφύλαξη παντός δικαιώματος. Ο​πως και με τον γάμο, η συμμετοχή στην Ευρωπαϊκή Ενωση και στην Ευρωζώνη υποτίθεται ότι είναι μακροχρόνια δέσμευση, σε εύκολους και σε δύσκολους καιρούς. Παρ’ όλα αυτά, προκύπτουν διαζύγια—ακόμη και όταν κάποιος έχει παντρευτεί με τις καλύτερες των προθέσεων, συμβαίνουν διαζύγια. Η αναταραχή ξέσπασε πρώτα στα κράτη-μέλη […]