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Fecha: Lunes, Mayo 23, 2022 - 19:52
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For decades, the mainstream of both the Democratic and Republican parties favored expanding trade between the U.S. and other countries. Greater globalization, these politicians promised, would increase economic growth — and with the bounty from that growth, the country could compensate any workers who suffered from increased trade. But it didn’t work out that way. Instead, trade has contributed to the stagnation of living standards for millions of working-class Americans, by shrinking the number of good-paying, blue-collar jobs here. The incomes of workers without a bachelor’s degree have grown only slowly over the past few decades. Many measures of well-being — even life expectancy — have declined in recent years. All along, many politicians and experts continued to insist that trade was expanding the economic pie. And they were often right. But struggling workers understandably viewed those claims as either false or irrelevant, and they refused to support further expansions of trade. Fuente: |
Fecha: Miércoles, Mayo 18, 2022 - 21:40
Headlines are abuzz with the return of inflation, which, according to some measures, is now reaching 40 year highs. Considering that vanquishing inflation is supposed to be the one undisputed achievement of neoliberalism, why is it rising? Many explanations – from excessive money creation to disrupted supply chains to tightening labour markets and a post-lockdown surge in demand are offered. The view that it would be a short term affair is giving way to a more sobering assessment of its persistence, particularly since geopolitical conflict gave inflation a booster shot. As for its solution, one thing is clear, dealing with it as Paul Volcker famously did in the late 1970s is not a politically affordable option for governments beholden to elites whose outrageous fortunes depend on low interest rates. This panel will seek to examine this phenomenon by asking question such as why is inflation rising? Can we expect it persist? What are the major policy-options being discussed and what are their political implications of each? How should socialists think about this new problem? Fuente: |
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Autor: Oscar Ugarteche, Armando Negrete
El final de la era multilateral: EEUU sobre todos y fuera del juego
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Resumen: La llegada de los republicanos al poder en enero del 2017 auguraba una profundización de las políticas unilaterales promovidas por los demócratas. Lo que ha sorprendido al mundo es la agresividad con la que el jefe de Estado norteamericano anuncia su política exterior y sus efectos sobre el multilateralismo. Lo que ha mostrado Trump, acompañado por el asesor de Seguridad Nacional John Bolton, es que EEUU puede hacer un tour de force sin respetar a la OMC ni a nadie. Todo parece indicar que el libre comercio ya no le interesa a EEUU, ahora cuando más necesita al mundo y el mundo ya no lo necesita tanto. El mercado mundial dinámico del siglo XXI es China, ya no es EEUU. |
¿Qué le pasó a la UNASUR?
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Resumen: Apoyados de la convergencia política y económica de los gobiernos progresistas latinoamericanos, UNASUR entró en funciones en agosto de 2008 a través del Tratado Constitutivo de la Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, firmado entre Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Perú, Surinam, Uruguay y Venezuela. En abirl de 2018, una semana después de la VIII Cumbre de las Américas en Lima, y dos días después del nombramiento de la presidencia pro tempore boliviana de UNASUR, se presentaron las bajas indefinidas de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay y Perú. UNASUR se quedó con menos de la mitad de los miembros, sin fondos suficientes, ni poder de decisión y, por lo tanto, relegada a ser un organismo testimonial. Sin el organismo, América Latina está otra vez a merced de las disputas hegemónicas en la región. |
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