WASHINGTON | By Jeff Madrick via The Next New Deal | This latest outrage is just another symptom of an extreme anti-government ideology with roots dating back to the 1970s, the author believes. And sequestration is undermining what could have been a strong recovery by now.
MADRID | By Luis Arroyo | It is a grave mistake to stubbornly defend the application of the same strict rules whether the economy is growing or in recession, and social unrest and missed fiscal targets are testament to how wrong the current European policies are.
NEW YORK | Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan shared a humble background and were both committed to a conservative revolution: fight communism, dismantle government bureaucracies and deregulate key industries.
By Luis Arroyo, in Madrid | Here’s one more example of how politics constantly enters the economics arena with the firm intention of interfering in some way or another. That was the time in which the US Republican conservatives tried to grill the then Federal Reserve chief Paul Volcker when he wanted to cool the high inflation of those days down. Let me quote these few lines: “Secretary Regan mustered…