Tag: Great Recession

Some policymakers, like U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, have touted friend-shoring.

President Donald Trump wants to continue with this policy of shutting China out as much as possible. Joe Biden ... is also of the same view.

By helping to lead the global response to the COVID-19 crisis, China can turn its defensive, reactive stance toward the U.S. into a more open, proactive one.

As Marx said in “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Luis Bonaparte,” “History repeats … first as a tragedy, then as a farce.”

'The biggest legacy of the [2008] financial crisis is the Trump presidency.'

A decade after the financial crisis began, the big central banks are still propping up the economy with their millions of injections of money into the financial system.

The absence of political dialogue has become a chronic illness in the U.S. that paralyzes democratic practice – an illness for which a remedy will probably not be found any time soon.

The 'great recession' will be remembered for the distribution of income and wealth in the opposite direction of progress.

The suggestion that the interests of Wall Street stand diametrically against those of Main Street is dangerous populism.