The Enron implosion briefly focused public attention on the vulnerability of ordinary Americans’ pension coverage. But the remedial legislation passed by the Republican House actually makes workers even more vulnerable. The bigger scandal is not the occasional loss of entire retirement savings in cases such as Enron’s but the inadequate coverage and systematic erosion of […]
Christian Weller
Christian E. Weller is a macroeconomist at the Economic Policy Institute.
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Free Markets and Poverty
For better than two decades, the orthodox recipe for global growth has been embodied in the so-called Washington Consensus. This approach, advocated by the United States and enforced by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), holds that growth is maximized when barriers to the free flow of capital and commerce are dismantled […]